First day of high school alone - family lacked phone systems

"Go home, nigger! Go back to Africa!"

"Two-four-six-eight. We don't want to segregate!"

Received threats to be lynched

Dropped out of high school early

Took night courses

"As I stepped out into the street, the people who had been across the street started surging forward behind me. So, I headed in the opposite direction to where there was another bus stop. Safety to me meant getting to that bus stop. It seemed like I sat there for a long time before the bus came. In the meantime, people were screaming behind me what I would have described as a crowd before, to my ears sounded like a mob."

Struggles and Obstacles