Frederick A. Washington

Frederick A. Washington

July 3, 2020

“The buses would bring the white children in from outlying areas, to Herndon, and they would ridicule us ... spit at you, throw insults at you, throw things at you. We would be standing, about five of us kids, standing there, huddling, waiting for the bus to come, so we caught hate at that point from them. At that point it didn’t bother us greatly because that’s the only life we knew. Growing up in a segregated society, I’m telling you, until you were exposed to something else, it was OK. Not OK, because it was life, it really was. So that’s the way I had to go high school.”

Barbara Glakas

Frederick Washington’s Life in Segregated Herndon by Barbara Glakas
The Herndon Patch on line newspaper July 3,2020