...God gave me limited prescience of what to expect if I decided to attend a predominantly white college in the early sixties. I needed to concentrate on receiving an education from an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities). I received an acceptance letter from Oakwood College, an HBCU. This Institution was about 900 miles from my home...I was contemplating moving 900 miles from my birth site to attend a college located in an environment immersed in mega prejudice traditional to the deep south in the early sixties. Huntsville, Alabama was not too far from Birmingham, where Theophilus Eugene (Bull) Connor, a devout racist, and segregationist lived.