“White kids didn’t like me simply because I was black.”
“The issue was that they didn't accept us for who we were. They thought we were dirty, lazy. I mean, you couldn't get more hard working people if you tried… Our parents, our Aunties, our Uncles, our cousins, they would be gone, you know, five, six o'clock in the morning, out picking fruit, out doing the work on the orchards.” Aunty Nellie Flagg shares with Commissioners firsthand experiences of racism at school.
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