Nobuo Honda's story of segregation has to do with his experiences in America and back on Hawaii. When Honda came America his first encounter with segregation occurs on a bus in Atlanta where he sits in the back, where the black people were supposed to sit. When Nobuo sits in the back of the bus in his uniform, the bus driver notions him to the front of the bus, usually where the white people sit. When he arrived at Fort Benning, Nobuo was conflicted; he had to choose whether to use the white or black restrooms. In Lanai, Hawaii, people were also segregated into racial groups, white people, also being on the top of this racial hierarchy. He said that white people lived on hilltops and help careers with superior positions rather than manual labor. People were not allowed to have romantic relations with white people other than white people. Eventually, Lanai, Hawaii, changed its ways of segregation gradually.

R.C. Hickman served in the army before starting his career as a photographer and selling paper. Once he got out of the army in 1945, he got a job as a darkroom technician. He then went back to school to study photography and got a job working for The Dallas Express where he wasn't hired, but learned a lot about selling ads. He used that experience when he took a job as a sales agent at the Kansas City Call. He was a very successful salesman, he even managed to get his own office in Dallas selling paper and ads. His pastor then asked him to join the Dallas Star-Post to sell paper and take pictures. Hickman took on many photography projects, like in Italy or of schools and all kinds of things and places.