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Imagine if you were an African American teenager living in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. You had to walk past Phillips High School, the school for whites, and go to the colored school further away. The colored school was more crowded than the white school and received less funding. Not only that, but the colored school received the throwaways from the white school, so all the equipment and supplies were old and falling apart. What would you do if someone told you of the discrepancy between the white and colored schools?
Imagine if you had to step off of the sidewalk if a white person was coming your way? Imagine if white people called you “boy, ” “girl,” and “nigger.” What if you had to give your seat up on a bus, only because you were black and the person was white? What if you saw your parents humiliated with being called “boy” or “girl,” and having to give up their seats on the buses? Imagine if your parents tried to vote, only to be intimidated away, or told that their voting day had already ended?
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