Dom Smith: Continental Divide
@ Adler & Floyd
3537 S Western Blvd #5, Chicago, IL 60609
Opening Saturday, July 21st, from 7PM - 10PM
On view through Saturday, August 11th
My mother’s first memories of music came from listening to the yellow-bus radio on her morning rides to Carver Elementary. In 1971 at age 9, she was one of 40,000 students taking part in a county-wide effort to desegregate public schools in Columbus, Georgia. She was taken to an all black school which due to restricted funding lacked air conditioning, was poorly maintained and consisted of a network of outdoor classrooms connected by covered walkways.
Muscogee county implemented a “busing” program by which white and black students would be taken from their neighborhoods to new schools so as to create more diverse student bodies. It took Muscogee county 17 years and a court order to desegregate its schools.
My mother and I were born 24 years apart, and neither of us can remember a time when our communities weren’t divided by racism.
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