Originally Posted by
marv2
Oh yeah it was a very different situation for Black people traveling back then. As a black person, I can remember traveling by car to Mississippi as a kid to visit my grandparents. We had to carry food my mother made with us in the car on the way down there, because we were not allowed to stop and eat at restaurants. My father had to drive for hours [[12-14 hours each way) with only stops for gasoline. We had to strategically look for places to use the restrooms. For the trip back, my grandmother would get up extra early to prepare food [[chicken, sandwiches,cake etc....) for us to take in the care for the trip home.
This was not a hundred years ago. This was in the 1960s!
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