It was illegal for black people and white people to play checkers together in Birmingham. And there were even black and white Bibles to swear to tell the truth on in many parts of the South.
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After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.
We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.
Negroes could be sold - actually sold as we sell cattle, with no reference to calves or bulls or recognition of family. It was a nasty business. The white South was properly ashamed of it and continually belittled and almost denied it. But it was a stark and bitter fact.
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.
We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
When I was born in 1959, the hospital in which I arrived had separate floors for black babies and white babies, and it was then illegal for blacks and whites to marry in many states.
When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.
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