Special Report Transcript Episode 19, Section 5, Time 38:04

I was raised in a racist family and the main reason I wanted to be here today is to tell you how regretful I am for causing, what should have been the best year of your life, the most miserable. I went along, because I was afraid. You can’t imagine, for 38 years, how badly I have felt. That does not do anything for what happened, that does not … I’m just sorry. I’m very sorry. // And what are you most sorry about? The way you behaved, the way you were thinking, the way you were raised, what? // For not doing what I knew was wrong. I can tell you that every day of my life at Central was in fear. I cannot remember my … teacher’s name, but I can remember on the corner of 14th and Park street white men trying to turn over a 1954 Chevrolet with an elderly black man in it. The fear to this day, I get chill bumps. I did nothing. I went along, I never … My participation was chanting, but that was awful, and I was so afraid and I knew it was wrong. I was only 15, but at the time I knew I was wrong.

Notes: Ann Burleson (Opposed integration in 1957); Oprah Winfrey

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