00:00As I was growing up, Durham, like all the other southern cities, was segregated.
00:14The blacks had their own establishments and the whites had theirs.
00:20And then this area was not as bad as a lot of other areas.
00:30Black people owned a lot of businesses, like you had North Carolina Mutual, a business which
00:39was black owned.
00:41You had places like American Tobacco and Ligget Miles where both black and white people worked.
00:50And even though the white people had the better jobs, black people working had still earned
00:56a very good salary.
00:58Durham itself is predominantly black, you know.
01:03So with integration, we integrated a lot faster than a lot of other areas did.
01:16I thought it was for my benefit as well as the future benefit of, you know, black people.
01:30You know, that they wouldn't have to go through what I had gone through.
01:37There were many establishments that blacks were not allowed to go in.
01:42And Cresses, for an example, had two floors.
01:49On their bottom floor level, they had a complete, like, restaurant.
01:54And black people weren't allowed to eat in that restaurant.
01:58You had picket lines that black people did not go in.
02:05And there were a lot of white people, too, that didn't go in.
02:10The high school kids, on up to your college kids, and young adults, and even older adults.
02:19So we managed to get things done.
02:34That's accurate.
02:35There were five amendments, theyytic lights.
02:36That's very good.
02:49So we had just read the way..
02:51Give it a little bit better.
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