Segregation had crystallized around laws, customs, and public opinion. Some people made a science of it-unwritten but widespread views about what to do under various conditions. Jim Crow was harsh and we saw some horrible things making these memories all the more melancholy and all the more precious because we did some things right.
George Youngblood was born in 1929 in South Carolina and grew up during the Great Depression and WWII. He is a retired scientist with a PhD in chemistry and now lives in Texas.