It's interesting to hear those points of view. It's stuff you don't get to hear up north. But it was the lessons learned outside of the classroom that will likely stay with the NU students for a lifetime - lessons in family pride and racial prejudice. Mom, who is often the only parent, is God-like in nature. That's all that matters.
Family get-togethers are frequent and a lot of fun, even for outsiders.
The older people in the community were very accepting of us. It didn't take the students long to discover that acceptance only goes so far in Mississippi. There are two swimming pools - one primarily white, the other primarily black. He was very intelligent and graduated with a degree in chemistry. Neither Worrall nor Alcorn experienced any outright discrimination during their stay in Lorman.