Bielefeld, Germany, 2006
“The library’s advisory board had decided to allow Black people access to the library. This wasn’t announced publicly, but word quickly got around, and my students were then served very kindly in the library. Shortly afterwards, the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the most important civil rights movement in America, approached me and asked me to become a member of the NAACP committee in Little Rock. At the time, I was the only white person in the NAACP in Little Rock, even though there were a lot of white members in the north. I then became the chairman of the school committee of the Little Rock chapter, and I organized research, etc., which led to the gradual abolition of racial segregation in schools.”