Celebrate the Women; Roberta Byrd

her serenade major funding for this program has provided by the washington centennial commission additional funding is provided by the music and art foundation the washington mutual savings bank foundation mr cliff rand and why the subscribers of kqed's seattle oh me he's also written the women's a series to celebrate washington state's centennial year human in washington state a more directly involved in the tumultuous days of the sixties and seventies and was roberto bird bar as first one and first black principal of the large seattle high school and at the same time as the incisive an outspoken moderator came to these controversial show face to face the road again the unique perspective on those times weber decided

her career in education department grade school near tacoma and she was the only black in her class she teaches there western energy goes by teachers because that's on there were reminds me that not all white people are horrible which would be easy to conclude that when the state of washington and as far as i knew the only things available where prostitution are being someone's housekeeper i did not wish to do either one site visit myself and getting a scholarship and get out of here after graduating from all like wilberforce university in ohio nehring i'm working on the east coast but they return to seattle in nineteen fifty nine and soon became a prominent black leader not only an education but as a media personality is broken

my neck right to the heart of the matter one of the kinds of things that you've been running happening right now in the negro community they just don't want you to tear down the city five inch either a right wing white community issues somewhere of course poverty and the program was initiated to do with van segregated schools her poverty program was a valiant fifteen year after fifteen years as a unique history of the region the coordination and while it lasted just long enough to raise homes some and then have them vanish and i think of

he had known people who have been working in those areas and we're now engaged in trying to preserve themselves from zero in northern saw was really is it's interesting to be that nice home were i first came in nineteen sixty a tremendous nineteen sixty eight if he wants them out that this school is doing we run run and that the inside that will continue to educate young people i don't think you would ever have had to worry you being white people in general had to worry about the serious skills if you had been fair in the way new allocated money in nineteen sixty six

roberta along with two other teachers one black woman and one white man joined the boycott of the public schools there were five thousand employees of the school district only these three have the courage to join the boycott boycott included many people both white and black by not allowing their children to attend water in schools to integrate the students who refused to go to public schools and alternatives started writing i was for anything that would give black kid equal access to what ever the school district had to offer i didn't think of it in terms of busing and all that sort of them and when they did desegregate they did it with this chapter we have made color a criterion five which one judges other people that's today why do we have to be so horrible to one another i don't

understand it but it's it's endemic we are rude to one another they obviously don't like one another they don't understand one another we don't know anything of not really know anything about one another i feel that america is leaner meaner spirited and then it was done again oh oh