During the 1960’s, our state issued songbooks contained such classics as My Old Kentucky Home and Dixie, which we sang with gusto. I think about that now and shudder. I now wonder what the six black students in our class must have felt.
During the 1960’s, our state issued songbooks contained such classics as My Old Kentucky Home and Dixie, which we sang with gusto. I think about that now and shudder. I now wonder what the six black students in our class must have felt.
There were no Black students in my public schools but I do wonder how the few Jewish students must have felt when we had devotions every morning and then stood by out desks and recited the Lord's prayer
Well, nearly everyone was Jewish where I grew up in Miami Beach and we said it every day. I always assumed it was from the Old Testiment but I just looked it up. What a surprise to me and my husband. But I can also say that there was a lot of prejudice against Black's and even though Miami Beach was 90% or more Jewish, there were places, like the golf course, that didn't allow Jews.
During the 1960’s, our state issued songbooks contained such classics as My Old Kentucky Home and Dixie, which we sang with gusto. I think about that now and shudder. I now wonder what the six black students in our class must have felt.
There were no Black students in my public schools but I do wonder how the few Jewish students must have felt when we had devotions every morning and then stood by out desks and recited the Lord's prayer
Well, nearly everyone was Jewish where I grew up in Miami Beach and we said it every day. I always assumed it was from the Old Testiment but I just looked it up. What a surprise to me and my husband. But I can also say that there was a lot of prejudice against Black's and even though Miami Beach was 90% or more Jewish, there were places, like the golf course, that didn't allow Jews.