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where I go to rest, rather than to become involved in community or educational problems. Now if any serious problem developed, obviously I couldn't turn my back on it, but obviously no serious problem has developed as far as I could see, but maybe because I don't want to see it so much.
Let's get the names of your children in here. Your daughter is Kate Clark Harris and your son is--
My grandson. Oh, Hilton-- yes, my son.
Now, the TIMES piece of May 21st, and the headline in this is lack Youths In The Suburbs, Many Say They Feel At Home”. But they are going back to your daughter, who says that when you moved the family up there, she was quite angry.
My wife and I-- it was Mamie who really wanted to move.
But as she grew up-- let's see, she says her contact with the whites-- I guess whites generally, the way she puts this, the way the report is written-- started at the age of ten and it helped her break down what she called the “myth of white superiority”. I quote again, “I found out at an early age that all whites are not rich or intellectually bright, that there are bad elements in all races and prejudice between whites. There are Irish Catholics who didn't like the Italians and the Italians who didn't like the Jews. All this was
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