by Jerome Paige | Mar 9, 2021 | Featured, Guest Contributor, HerStories of the 1960s, The 1960s Project
PATRICIA READ I grew up the middle child in a middle-class family in the middle of the country in the middle of a period of significant social change. For me, the 1960s started with great optimism and excitement as we ran to see the young incoming President, John F....
by Jerome Paige | Feb 23, 2021 | Conversations Across Generations, Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project, Voices of the 1960s, WOJM-SM
DR. ANTHONY BROWDER To my daughter Atlantis and all the young people who view me as a role model: I was born in 1951. As I approach my 70th year, I trust my reflections of the 1960s will help you understand the legacy you are inheriting and why you must use, preserve,...
by Jerome Paige | Feb 9, 2021 | Conversations Across Generations, Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project, Voices of the 1960s, WOJM-SM
OKELLA PAIGE TRICE I’m one of my families’ genealogists. I have followed several branches of my families’ trees — Paiges, Saunders, Palmers, and Trices, among others. I also help others trace theirs. As is typical with many genealogists like me, we hold...
by Jerome Paige | Feb 2, 2021 | Conversations Across Generations, Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project, Voices of the 1960s
LOUIS HICKS Take a look at me, Jourdan! I’m enjoying a financially secure and personally rewarding retirement, 51 years after graduating from high school in 1969 in racially segregated Austin, Texas. I’m 69, and in this letter, I’m sharing what I’ve gleaned from...
by Jerome Paige | Jan 5, 2021 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
ROBERT E. NEILSON, PH.D. Class of 1966 What do you do? Someone asked me. “I think about the future,” I replied. While in high school, I thought about the implications of John F. Kennedy’s assassination and those of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F....
by Jerome Paige | Dec 8, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
PEGGY BEECHAM Class of 1966 From birth, my journey as a baby boomer through my formative years, through young adulthood, and now into my mature status as a retired senior is fairly typical of many African American peers. My life ran parallel to and was shaped by the...
