To the Editor:
In her Aug. 19 Commentary, Dotty Cronan’s account of racial integration in the 1940s and ‘50s really hit home. Her experiences as a white girl embracing diversity quite matched my own as a central Jersey girl in the ’60s. I had Black friends who once were not allowed to enter the corner store with me. I bought us all candy and shrugged it off.
Our elderly, Black crossing guard, whom I revered, watched over us like a wise owl, and put racists firmly in their place.
September 2, 2020
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