A friend of mine from Morgan brought something important to my attention. My tongue-in-cheek observation of my cousin's father-in-law, the mayor of Baltimore, ordering the theater owner to open his doors to Black customers in a shopping center only a quick walk from school where students were not allowed to eat, not allowed to shop in the department store, certainly not allowed to try on clothes. It made it seem as if it were the mayor's command and not the three weeks of blood, sweat, and tears endured by the students that broke down that barrier and integrated that place. No politician did this. Morgan did. It was an act of devotion and determination pulled off by a student body determined to be polite yet determined not to budge.
Go, Bears!
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