A first grader went on her first day to a newly integrated school at the height of the segregation storm. An anxious mother met her at the door to inquire, “How did everything go, honey?”
“Oh, Mother! You know what? A little black girl sat next to me!”
In fear and trepidation, the mother expected trauma, but tried to ask calmly: “And what happened?”
“We were both so scared that we held hands all day.”