While walking through the exhibits and reading what was written it seemed like the children did not really have experience the overt and hostile prejudice that is typically seen in movie and television. There was not much violence or other extreme acts of aggression like that seen in the Deep South. In fact Governor William Tuck was quoted saying “The White and Negro races have lived in harmony and mutual respect in Virginia longer than in part if the Western Hemisphere.” However, there was conscious and intentional discrimination because they openly admitted that it was not “right” to mix the two groups. In hearing the interviews and reading some of the material it seem if they fear what would happen to the integrity of their race if they
