>>Forced segregation? Whites only restaurants and drinking fountains? If that >happened in the north, I haven't heard of it. I think we all have seen >pictures of it in the south.
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>You "hearing" of it does not matter. I just told you that I lived it. It was such a big deal at the school I attended that I still remember the name of the fellow. It was Alan Best and he was the FIRST black person that I ever went to school with IN SUBURBAN WASHINGTON DC. Not the south by any means. And yes it was forced. It happened quietly but it was forced. So since I lived this... how can you write that it did not happen?
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I've been trying hard to stay out of these threads, but ...

Washington, DC is a southern city. Has been for a long time, not just by geography (south of the Mason-Dixon line), but also by culture.

Tamar