Coming of Age on Racial Matters in the American South

Memories of the 1960s and 1970s in Small-town North Carolina

I wrote this column for The Fayetteville (NC) Times in December, 1976. I was reminded of it by two things: Heather Cox Richardson’s column on Summer 1964 as “Freedom Summer,” when many young people from the North were inspired to travel South to advocate for Black rights, especially to vote and to participate in anti-poverty programs; and by reading my …