, the um, my home county is Okoney County, but um…the school that I was teaching in was Anderson County. Well, uh, in the city of Anderson, which was the main high school, uh, for African Americans in that area, in that county, um, this school had always taken first place in the oratorical contest. And

started there then as a sophomore really. L: Aren’t you one of the first African Americans on that campus? B: Yes. At the time I got started at F&M, uh, there were there local African Americans on campus. Uh, Sumner [Bohee] had started a year before. Grant [Miens] and I had started at the same time, about