by Jerome Paige | Dec 1, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
LOUIS HICKSClass of 1969“To get a good job, get a good education. Go to college.” This commercial repeatedly aired when I was watching my favorite television shows as an adolescent. I was born in Austin, Texas, and grew up in the Austin Housing Authority’s Rosewood...
by Jerome Paige | Nov 24, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
ANNA BRELAND Class of 1969 I had no one to guide me on how to choose a college. Yet, I ended my career as a school counselor… I attended a tuition-free college. Yet, I ended up as the director of a college financial aid office…. I wasn’t actively engaged in...
by Jerome Paige | Nov 10, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
JEROME PAIGE, PH.D. Class of 1965 In 1965 I graduated from Germantown High School in Philadelphia, PA, uncertain what life would bring. Now at age 72. I have no plans “to retire” in the traditional sense of that term. I’m looking forward to at least four...
by Jerome Paige | Oct 13, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
JUDITH WINSTON Class of 1961 While I was growing up, I had always dreamed of going to college, even though my father and mother had never attended. The 1950’s musicals of coeds singing and dancing, hardly ever in classrooms, was my vision of college life. Of course,...
by Jerome Paige | Oct 6, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
JAMES PAIGE Class of 1963 My siblings and I didn’t grow up wealthy, and I don’t remember wanting for anything. However, in retrospect, I became interested those who are “under-resourced.” These are terms I didn’t use in the 1960s. Then,...
by Jerome Paige | Sep 29, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
SHARON PUGHClass of 1969I found my identity amidst rapid demographic, social, and political changes. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The rise of Washington DC as “Chocolate City.” Going away to college. The rising and waning of local black...
