Hopal wrote:Deblar wrote:“Yes, I’m not sure how me and Cora do it either. Dawn can especially be a piece of work sometimes, as well as my oldest, Darryl, but I couldn’t have asked for a better family.”
"Neither could I." After a short pause Richard spoke up again "Well uh onto business, you mentioned in a letter to me that Gerald Marshal would've wanted to see Jim Crow ended. To be able to go into any diner and not be denied based on his race. Again my express my condolences to you, the NNRC, and his family on his loss. But if you don't mind me asking, did he.. Mr. Marshal grow up in south? Did he live a life of discrimination and hardship? Did he have to experience these things?" He asked with a hint of emotion and a face of alight concern.
“To my knowledge, yes. According to his mother, they lived in Richmond, Virginia for a while, and Richmond certainly has...a history, you could say. And Virginia is a pretty segregationist state. His family, according to his mother, received multiple threats from racists in the city, and eventually they took the hint and moved to Philadelphia. And Gerald talked to me about it a bit too before he, well, passed at New Orleans. I asked him if he was scared about doing the march in an unwelcoming environment, and he told me-“ James paused, remembering that Dawn was sitting next to him. “‘Heck no,” James continued. “‘There’s no place I’d rather be’.” James sighed. “He, of course, wouldn’t know what would happen to him...” James sighed again, looking to change the subject. “You mentioned legislation to try to end segregation in workplaces and colleges. What would your plan for that look like?”