Not even Martin Luther King, Jr. rated a picture after his murder in April 1968. I'm either the invisible person, waiting forever to be waited on, or the store security is following me around everywhere. Equally troubling for Wichita Falls, while not as well documented in the series, was the nagging reality that most of the city's talented young blacks move away soon after graduating from high school. The first step to recovery is admitting, and yes, racism is a disease. Other blacks were less optimistic.
Sanders sees blacks and whites as occupying entrenched positions.
A white man told me the other day that white people have been pretty generous to black people. Prejudice is very polite here. We don't have a lot of KKK running around in this town, we just have a very polite prejudice. One Wichita Falls resident who expressed very little enthusiasm for the series was the mayor, Kay Yeager. Editor Carroll Wilson got some positive feedback, but also several angry and racist anonymous calls to a special phone line set up to receive reader reaction.