Friendship leads to celebration of "Brunswick 15" who desegregated Virginia school

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10 ай бұрын

Marvin Jones started writing letters to the students who had bullied him at his Virginia high school, where in the 1960s he was one of several students to desegregate it. In the process of writing the letters, he found an unexpected friend. Steve Hartman has his story in "On the Road."
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@patriciagurwitz509 10 ай бұрын

These stories about discrimination are an embarrassment and disgrace to the United States. Hard to believe that it’s still happening... it’s heartbreaking 🙏🏽

@user-io5me4ou4l 7 ай бұрын

Happens all around the world. This is nothing new.

@lizhall2961 4 ай бұрын

As in my seventies, in many ways and in many areas, it is much better. But there are deep pockets of prejudice from both sides and discrimination against African Americans and Hispanics.😢 We are still in danger! 😢

@hankmike3283 10 ай бұрын

Grateful for Steve and these wonderful stories

@veramae4098 10 ай бұрын

I just read "Warriors never cry", the memoirs of a girl involved in desegregating Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. The hatred, the harassment, was brutal. *Brutal.* I often wonder if any of those people regret what they said and did.

@hollylebed9719 10 ай бұрын

So upsetting and heartwarming at the same time.

@ainembabazisuccessor 10 ай бұрын

I’m crying

@idarabassey7455 3 ай бұрын

this made me tear up, I am thankful that there are still people receptive to learning from others who are different from them

@nursemedic17 6 ай бұрын

This made me cry. I grew up in the 70s and 80s going to an all white school. Somehow I needed this story today....suddenly what I went through was absolutely nothing. My stories do not even begin to compare.

@atlaustell 7 ай бұрын

This is just another example of how evil some w people can be.

@faithwagoner9203 7 ай бұрын

These 2 men & Steve class acts!!

@MrMoney2511 10 ай бұрын

Good story..turns out he is part of my family from Emporia Va.. The Powell Clan of Ante a little section of Emporia..

@lizhall2961 4 ай бұрын

Few know these brave students in this school and thousands of others in desegregation! A person's skin color should never be a cause of prejudice!

@neokennime6756 10 ай бұрын

❤

@KS-dp2rk 3 ай бұрын

People still live with this trauma to this day!!! The 21st century! Do not ever forget, we can never ask people that its in the past when racism comes into the conversation

@mikeborrelli193 10 ай бұрын

60 years after desegregation black men now have the lowest HS grad rates, highest incarceration rate and lowest fathers in the home. Great job.

@statesman01 9 ай бұрын

You definitely are related to one of those who tormented Marvin Jones.

@amonrodriguez3518 9 ай бұрын

It’s sad that people who have it so easy, also can still hate so easily. Hope you get better.

@gabriellemolinaro6750 7 ай бұрын

Yeah Mike, it’s because racism still exists. On the surface it doesn’t look like it, but the opportunities afforded to Black Americans are lacking compared to their white counterparts.

@fdm2155 6 ай бұрын

Its almost as if structural racism leads to different treatment in society... 🙄

@ifinallyfoundthebeef 5 ай бұрын

True nothing truly good came out of integration. Each time we had our own communities they destroyed those communities.