Iceweasel
Diamond Member
He spoke at my high school. He later died from the treatment, I forget what it was. The thing is race relations was hardly a secret, I didn't get it then and I don't now.There's a pretty good book "Black like Me" written by a white journalist who traveled the South in the 50's passing as a Black man. He underwent some kind of skin treatment to darken his skin to be able to pass.
I moved from NYC in the late 60s to rural Mississippi. Racism was alive and well in the south, my high school wasn't segregated, blacks had their own water fountain and sat upstairs in the theater (and threw shit down on us, the smart move was to sit under the balcony). However, there was just as much racism in the north, they just weren't honest about it.