Reply #48: I do too! [View All]

[Cleita]

I never lived in the south, but in 1948 my family disembarked from an ocean liner in New Orleans coming from Chile. (They usually disembarked in New York.) My dad bought a car in NO and we drove from there to Arizona. While in the south though, I was warned away from a drinking fountain for blacks and my mother got into it with one of the streetcar conductors in NO because she sat in what they called the Jim Crow car because it wasn't as crowded as the white car. She refused to move incidentally. I also remember the AAs having to go into a separate door at the movies.