The summer of 1947 was a summer Myers remembered wholly. Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby were the first Negro people let into Major League baseball, Joe Louis was heavyweight champion of the world, and “Sugar” Ray Robinson was the welterweight champion. “The New York Amsterdam News, our local weekly Negro newspaper, suggested that the United States was now going to treat Negroes as equals for the first time,” Myers recalled on page 35. He also recalls his life being revolved around school and church, and the integration that the community detained. “And the church always had whites involved in some capacity,” Myers expresses to us. The rest of the chapter goes on about how Walter felt about his initials, his family in New York, the endless
