: --about this is not like black people. Yeah, yeah. J: Hahaha. L: Why can’t I ride on the school bus to go school? J: Mmhm. L: But that’s how it was, and…um, so little could be done to change that, because the um, policy was it’s separate but equal, but it was, it was quite obvious that um, there was

Transcriber: Miles Shugar [] indicates uncertainty of what was spoken Ruby Wilkerson (W): Ruby M May Wilkerson. Carole Lefever (L): And where were you born, Mrs. Ruby? W: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. L: Oh I was from Harrisburg most of my life as well! And you came to Lancaster about when? W: 19…I forget the

] Post No. 772 of the American Legion, Columbia, Pennsylvania was one of the congratulatory uh…sponsors. L: Now was it, was it common for American Legions to be named after a local person, or was that uniquely an African American thing? B: No that was the common— L: That was the practice. B: Yes. L: Now

people who were, who were in both put it that way? P: I believe uh, James Jones and maybe Arthur Brown. L: And they were part of your charter membership too. P: Yeah, but uh, they, you could feel the, the tension and they didn’t want us there. L: Mmhm. L a n c a s t e r H i s t o r y �P: So they