she was married to my uncle, we called him terry he was a pullman porter.ad a stable income and able to buy a house in south shore. the neighborhood was mixed. that meant to the schools were mixed. in kindergarten and first grade my classroom i would put a school picture in my book to show you the diversity that was there. but what was going on in the 70s was what we call white flights. all my little white friends that i had and i had plenty of them. they started literally disappearing before my eyes. i didn't realize until i had grown up and learned about segregation and the whole issue of pushing folks bullying other communities as black families moved in was that the neighborhood was starting to change.we started to feel those effects, not just in friends leaving but a disinvestment in the neighborhood. we felt it in the schools. second grade comes around and it was the first time i was in a chaotic classroom. where the races were flying and teachers were teaching. and i knew this as a second grader. i would come home with my little lunch and my baloney

he said he became a pullman porter own to train, the largest private employer of blacks and my dad was able to tragedy around the country, which is eye opening and came to california and it was sunny and people were smiling and my dad said, it seemed less racist so maybe i'll relocate to california. pearl harbor publication dad joined the marines. said why, he said that go where the action is and i love the uniform. my dad was a marine, the first black marines, 20,000 of them in 1942 to 1949. went to guam. became a staff sergeant, promoted four times and in carm of cooking. my dad could bake anything. he could oak look at it and tell what is in it. goes bag to the south where he met and married my woman. he went to restaurants, restaurants, to restaurant and they told him don't hire and they said n-word to his ford. he win to unemployment offers. he said you went to at the wrong door, the goes to the colder doctor and went to the same lady show sent him out he said this is bs. he went to california no would be give him a job at a restaurant because he had no references. my dad said, ok

aunt robbe so she was able to own her own home, and was married to my uncle, tarry, he was a pullman porter. so they had a stable income and was able to buy a house in south shore. the neighborhood was mic'ed and that meant the schools were mixed. so in kindergarten and first grade i put a school picture in my back to show you the diversity that was there. but what was going on in the 70s was what we call white flight. and all my little white friends that i had and i had plenty of them they started literally disappearing before my eyes. and i didn't want realize until i had grown and up learned about segrogation and the whole issue of pushing folks fleeing out of the communities at black families moved in was that the neighborhood was starting to change, and so we started to feel those effects not just in friends leaving but a disinvestment in the neighborhoods and we felt that in the school. so second grade comes around and it was the first time i was in a chaotic classroom, where erasers were flying, and teachers wasn't teaching and i knew this as a second-grader. and i would come home wi