The president of St. Philip’s College, Dr. Adena Williams Loston, has come a long way from Vicksburg, Miss.
One of five children growing up in the Deep South, Loston said she endured the sting of Jim Crow.Loston said restrooms and water fountains designated “colored only” were the norm.Years earlier, Loston said she attended summer classes organized by the Freedom Riders, many of them white college students from up North, who risked their lives to protest segregation.When she was only ten years old, Loston said her mother gave her a stack of voter registration cards for their neighbors.
She said her father, the first black self-employed master plumber in town, also was determined to defend his family in the face of racism. “He would charge people according to the way they talked to his children, was his price,” Loston said.“People thought that daddy was giving them a good deal,” she said.“People didn’t know why, but we knew why,” Loston said. “We thought he was restoring our humanity.”Rather than let the racism get the best of them, Loston said her father learned how to deal with it.
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