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In the summer of 1951, a teenager named Brady Keys, boarded a train to Los Angeles.

Brady spent the first 14 years of his life in Austin, Texas.

Growing up in the South met his world was confined by rigid color lines.

Jim Crow determined where he could live, where his community could worship, get an education, socialize.

Even his passion for football was subject to separate but equal.

His coaches were impressed by his game but they knew and Brady knew that he wouldn't be able to play for the University of Texas Longhorns because of his race.

Maybe California would be different.

Brady settled into a seat, set down his bag and a small cardboard shoebox.

This cardboard box, which doubled as a lunch box, was a staple of black travel during the

first half of the 20th century.

His Aunt Clara had packed it, and inside were pieces

of cold-fried chicken and fried potatoes,

thick-cut ham sandwiches, pound cake, juicy peaches.

It would be another 10 years before students across the American South launched a massive

sit-in movement to desegregate lunch counters and soda fountains.

It would be another 13 years before the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

So Black Travelers consulted the Negro motorists greenbook to find restaurants, motels, and gas stations that would serve a black family.

And they packed shoebox lunches for the long stretches between those stops.

Brady stretched his legs and looked out the window,

where his beloved Aunt Clara and a few friends stood under a sign marked colored. They waved him farewell.

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