Growing Up Segregated: Three Witnesses To The Struggle For Civil Rights, Part 2

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this second part of our interview, the three lifelong friends further recount what life was like for Blacks in Jim Crow Alabama and the deep bonds that formed in the Black community at the time in order to support one another and to give the children a good education. They discuss how they overcame the structural racism they experienced as children to achieve incredible successes as adults.

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0:00.0	Kondi we are in the Birmingham neighborhood of Titusville.
0:03.4	Titusville. Tittisville?
0:05.2	Tittisville?
0:06.2	I will take corrections from you on that.
0:08.0	Tittisville.
0:09.0	Six decades ago, this was the home of the Reverend John Wesley Rice Jr. and his wife Angelina and their little girl.
0:17.6	Candeliza, that's exactly right.
0:20.0	So what are the first memories that come back?
0:23.2	Oh, well, we moved here from the back of the church.
0:26.0	We had a little apartment in the back of the church.
0:28.0	My dad, of course, when he was minister and a bachelor,
0:31.1	that little apartment was just fine.
0:33.5	And then my mother moved in, and then I was born.
0:36.5	And so we were there for three years.
0:39.7	And then the church decided to build a parsonage for my father.
0:44.0	So this little house was built by the church for my father.
0:48.4	So this neighborhood was safe?
0:50.0	Oh my goodness, it was completely safe.
0:51.8	The neighbors knew each other. The neighbors knew each other.
0:53.0	The moms and dads would look out for each other's kids?
0:56.2	Absolutely, yes.
0:57.7	And pretty much everybody.
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