As we commemorate six decades since Alabama's 'Season of Change: 1963', let's strive to ensure our history - all of it - is poured into our children and grandchildren in full color.
. That year, as most of you know, events throughout Alabama—some small, some seismic—ignited radical change across the state. Racial change.I wasn’t in Alabama then. I was a child in Tulsa, Oklahoma. That fall, I sat in the Paul Laurence Dunbar Elementary second-grade classroom of a teacher whose name is long lost to the haze of time as change emerged in Alabama.
The side of the city where Black families and Black wealth prospered, just across the tracks from downtown Tulsa where Black women like my mother had to put tissues in hats before trying them on—they couldn’t try on clothes at all—and Black men were relegated to subservient service jobs. Alabama had long filled its belly with Crow—on segregation, on racist policies and practices that extended to schools, businesses, and public spaces. Yet by 1963—nine years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling inFinally. It emerged, finally. Sometimes horrifically. Sometimes violently.I’m sure my parents watched the news images that transfixed the nation that summer,
images of firemen and policemen aiming hoses and frothing dogs on Birmingham school children marching to protest segregation in downtown businessesThey watched on our black and white television. The lack of color, today, makes it seem so long ago.I was slightly younger than nine-year-old Dwight Armstrong when he and 11-year-old brother Floyd strode alongside Rev.
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