I do not like forced integration.... I do not like forced anything.... as a youngster I lived in a white neighborhood with a white neighbor next door. We would go to them, they would go to us. If they had anything, we had it. We lived just like one. We didn’t think about no integration.
ATTRIBUTION:
Ruby Middleton Forsythe (b. 1905), African American schoolteacher. As quoted in I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker (1989).
Raised in Charleston, S. C., Forsythe had taught in that state for more than sixty years.
