My sharpest memories of segregation involve five things:

– Schools – Churches – Movie Theaters – Bathrooms and Drinking Fountains – Municipal Busses There was a White School District and a Negro School District.

I never attended school with a black person until my second year at Rice.

There were white churches and black churches - this sadly persists to this day although diminished and diminishing.

Typically Blacks had a separate entrance, separate concession stand and separate seating in movie theaters.

Any place that had public bathrooms or drinking fountains had duplicates for whites and blacks. I recall going to the ‘Colored’ drinking fountain in Sears and causing my mom real embarrassment.