Sandy Fowler-Jones and Barbara Hershafft
Recorded
June 16, 2022
Archived
June 16, 2022
50:21 minutes
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Id:
ddv001808
Description
Childhood friends and One Small Step conversation partners Sandy Fowler-Jones (67) and Barbara "Bobbie Jean" McLenny Herrschaft (67) talk about the importance of their friendship in 1960s North Carolina.Subject Log / Time Code
SFJ talks about being the only Black student at a new school and when she met Bobbie Jean. BJ talks about the day she met SFJ and her experience with race up until that point.
SFJ shares what is was like to be at the forefront of integration in North Carolina.
BJ asks SFJ about her life when she left their town in 9th grade. SFJ talks about her grammar school experience, her friendship with BJ, and the racism she faced from the KKK burning a cross on her yard to being called slurs by other kids.
SFJ and BJ talk about how racism and hate today is mirroring what they saw growing up in the 1960s.
BJ shares a story about the KKK in Mt. Olive, NC. She remembers how the KKK was against the integration of the pickle plant.
BJ shares the importance of her friendship with SFJ. She talks about how she values the lessons SFJ taught her, whether they were direct or not.
SFJ asks BJ if she has any advice for the younger generation. She wants the younger generation to get to know people before they make an assumption. SFJ shares that she would tell the younger generation to focus on their self-worth.
SFJ and BJ share their hopes for the future.
Participants
- Sandy Fowler-Jones
- Barbara Hershafft