Blurring the Color Line | Acceptance?
Clip: Season 11 Episode 4 | 1m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Members of the First Baptist Church of Augusta talk about shared but separate histories.
Senior members of Georgia's First Baptist Church of Augusta sit together to talk with filmmaker Crystal Kwok about their shared but separate histories. While the wife of the minister and the deacon - both white - tell of their acceptance of the Chinese community, the Chinese churchgoers address the dreams and realities they dealt with during that time.
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Blurring the Color Line | Acceptance?
Clip: Season 11 Episode 4 | 1m 14sVideo has Closed Captions
Senior members of Georgia's First Baptist Church of Augusta sit together to talk with filmmaker Crystal Kwok about their shared but separate histories. While the wife of the minister and the deacon - both white - tell of their acceptance of the Chinese community, the Chinese churchgoers address the dreams and realities they dealt with during that time.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(bells ringing) - All the families were raised in the African American neighborhood.
I recall that we had to pass a Black school in order to go to a white school, Chelsea Walker to go to John S. Davidson.
- Oh yeah.
- In our neighborhood.
- And to go to Woodlawn.
- Right, and it was so awkward, you know?
It was a strange feeling, really.
- Ultimately, the goal was to not to have to run a grocery store the rest of your life, to get out into the professions to be.
- Everybody concentrated on sending their kids to school, college... - So how did you all feel about this particular position of the Chinese going to white schools, going to white churches and living in the Black neighborhood?
How do you make sense of the situation then?
- We just accepted them and loved them and loved their culture and loved their presence everywhere.
We just, we still do, we still do.
- I've just had Chinese around.
I just accepted the Chinese that I didn't think that much about it.
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