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And in doingthat, I also went to visit some private schools in Washington. I didn't work in the private schools, though. But it was a broad experience. I learned a lot.
Now, to what extent were these schools integrated at that time?
No. These schools were not integrated.
All segregated in the district.
Yes, for the most part, I mean, we had a smattering of whites, maybe, in one school, as I remember, which was out toward the border going toward Virginia, but for the most part the schools were segregated.
The work I did was all with black children, in those schools.
You still have a copy of your thesis?
I'm sure I do. Yes.
Just for the record, though, briefly, what were your conclusions in that thesis?
In that thesis, the main conclusion was that children become aware of their own blackness very early. It was a conclusion that we were later to test, my husband and I, in Northern and Southern schools on a much broader scale.
You do have a copy. It might be interesting to have a copy of it made, to back up this reminiscence.
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