After 60 Years, Girl's Experience At Whites-Only Gas Station Still Hurts
An African-American woman remembers growing up in segregated Virginia in the 1950s, and being in the car when her father tried to get gas from a whites-only truck stop.
by Kerrie Hillman
Aug 18, 2017
2 minutes
Editor's Note: This story contains a quote where a racial slur is used.
Francine Anderson grew up in a small town in Virginia in the 1950s. As a young black girl, she knew all too well about racism in the Jim Crow South — but it wasn't until one night, driving back home from her grandmother's house, that she truly understood the
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