James Cooper, Suwannee County
Item
Title
James Cooper, Suwannee County
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Type
StillImage
Description
James Cooper, Suwannee County; “I think the good thing was that we knew that we were coing to have equal access to whatever was available. Good teachers, whatever you want to call 'em. Good supplies. Good facilities. Had that now. The other part, the downside of it is that we began to lose control of our black kids. Certain things you had to be cautious about doing. Where it wasn't a issue when we were all black. I'll do this and I'll see your mama later and I'll tell her why I did what I did. Now you get in another setting, you got to treat everybody the same, so if you going to be cautious with whites, you had to be cautious with blacks, if you want to be equal. The same things that we used to say to 'em, we could no longer say in that setting, because we would be deemed as [unfair] when they go back home and tell their parents about what's going on."
Genre
Photographs
Place
Florida--Suwannee County
Physical Description
11 items
Identifier
JGRCMA-MSS20060531-B001-PA-I084
Topics
African American Families
Physical Location
Hidden Sagas Collection, John G. Riley House Archives, Tallahassee Community College Library, Tallahassee, Florida.