Cate Fitt knits and posts about her hounds, her knitting, as well as about books and authors. Since people tell her they enjoy hearing about her youthful adventures and some of the things she has learned between now and then, those will appear every once in awhile. Oh, and various rants of course.
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Fifth Grade, 1956.
Michigan Avenue School, Lansing, Michigan. Cate is in the third row, wearing her Brownie uniform.
Notice anything about my class? I grew up thinking that was normal. Imagine my surprise when I discovered it wasn't.
How wonderful for you to have been able to grow up that way! Imagine being six years old and pathologically shy, going to your piano lessons with your mother's housekeeper. You are scared, but it is all right as long as you don't have to let go of Alberta's hand. You get on the streetcar and have to move the "Colored to the Rear" sign between two empty sears, so you can sit in front of it and Alberta behind it, but you can still hold her hand! By the way, only a white person was allowed to move that sign...And now we have a majority-corrupt Supreme Court that has gutted the Voting Rights Act to send us back to the bad old days!
This is great. Integrated class. Are you the Girl Scout, in the center? (I loved Girl Scouts!) However, we grew up in a white, not too integrated town. I think my adopted family forced integration, since we were the only people of color living in that small, rural Readington Township, in Hunterdon County, NJ. Nice photo! (I really liked my 5th grade.)
How wonderful for you to have been able to grow up that way! Imagine being six years old and pathologically shy, going to your piano lessons with your mother's housekeeper. You are scared, but it is all right as long as you don't have to let go of Alberta's hand. You get on the streetcar and have to move the "Colored to the Rear" sign between two empty sears, so you can sit in front of it and Alberta behind it, but you can still hold her hand! By the way, only a white person was allowed to move that sign...And now we have a majority-corrupt Supreme Court that has gutted the Voting Rights Act to send us back to the bad old days!
ReplyDeleteThis is great. Integrated class. Are you the Girl Scout, in the center? (I loved Girl Scouts!) However, we grew up in a white, not too integrated town. I think my adopted family forced integration, since we were the only people of color living in that small, rural Readington Township, in Hunterdon County, NJ. Nice photo! (I really liked my 5th grade.)
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