The A&T Four

Today I embarked on a Returning to the Roots of the Civil Rights tour, sponsored by my employer, Messiah University.  As someone from the north, there is much of this history that I don’t know very well and I have wanted to be on this learning tour for a long time. Leaving western PA at 6 AM, and driving through beautiful West Virginia, our first stop was in Greensboro, NC.  I felt like I knew this story, and I was here a few years ago when in the area for my son’s golf tournament.  But this is a small part of the story I hadn’t known.  As the A & T 4 sat at the counter on the first day, an elderly white woman sat down beside them and said she was disappointed in them.  They asked her why she was disappointed.  And she said, “I’m disappointed that it has taken you this long to do this.”   I had to ask myself.  How often do we, those in the majority, come alongside, in solidarity, with those who are suffering and mistreated right in our midst?

Roseann Sachs

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