In the late 1960s, after he had become famous, Hendrix told reporters that racist faculty expelled him from Garfield for holding hands with a white girlfriend during study hall.
Keď sa stal známy v roku 1960, Hendrix povedal novinárom, že bol vyhodený z Garfieldskej školy rasistickou fakultou za to, že sa v študovni držali za ruky s priateľkou bielej pleti.