st. benedict, which is a college in the mountains, and when we arrived in kansas, which is a small town, the whole campus was out to welcome these young girls from africa, and it was a great feeling, and i will always be grateful that in the 60's, we all know how the 60's went in the united states, and this was an all white curls college, but we were received so warmly, and we spent the best years of my life in kansas. >> when you look back, and you were in kansas with these people, and people like you were catching hell? >> it was a big contradiction. we were too young to understand the history behind it, so when we come to kansas there was a country -- a contradiction in that on campus people were so nice, but you could see the discrimination outside of campers. on weekends i remember. there were two young kenyan men and men, and when they introduced us. i know they would take us to places where we could hang out, and we were with other black people, and then the civil rights movement broke out, and so much was happening with martin luther king and all the people in the forefront of th