Show me yearbook from the South that does not have racist

[Miigwech]

shit ... pre-1990's, that is not an Historically African American College or school, and I will eat my hat

[Lochloosa]

1. Mine. Godby High School Tallahassee FL 1976.

[greymattermom]

2. Mine didn't

Waggener High School, Louisville, KY, 1964
Neither did the newspaper. I know that because I was the newspaper photographer.

Also, no black students, as I remember.

[Luz]

43. Deep SE Texas here. No black (or any other color) in mine

either. That's because the whole damn town was racist.

[LexVegas]

3. Or one in the Northeast....or Midwest. Right? nt

[marybourg]

4. There was definitely none in my

1959 yearbook from a nyc outer bourough h.s.

[Charlotte Little]

5. Here Dear

College Yearbook, two years before graduation.

https://aspire.apsu.edu/handle/20.500.11989/1564

Racism was rampant at that time and certainly on campus, but APSU made efforts to clamp down on it. Check out Page 11.

I'm proud of my alma mater.

[jberryhill]

33. Aha!

Page 3 - an African American man is accused of a crime

Page 5 - white football player appropriates what is clearly taking a knee in protest

Page 6 - African American student tied with rope to two rottweillers

Page 12 - Four students flashing "white power" sign

i haven't got all night, but you are not trying hard enough.

I don't even want to imagine whatever it is going on at Page 31.

Looks like a cool place to have gone to college though.

[Charlotte Little]

49. LOL

Okay, it took me a second, I'll admit. But...

And yes, very cool school.

[Mariana]

58. On page 11, we see a segregated choir group. nt.

[Charlotte Little]

62. Oh, boy...

...well, then, there you go.

There was an all black fraternity and an all white fraternity too, by the way. But at Sigma Nu, there were black and white fraternity brothers.

APSU did, and I imagine still does, a very good job at being inclusive and trying to keep discrimination at bay. There is nothing in that yearbook that's racist and certainly, nothing like black face or KKK garbage.

[R. P. McMurphy]

6. Mine didn't.

Claiborne County High School, Tazewell, Tennessee. 1976-1980.

[unc70]

7. My little NC high school yearbook in 1963-1966

We were in the process of integrating the local schools. There was racism around, but not in the yearbook. Those of us on the yearbook staff would not have allowed it.

Now when I went to college at Carolina, the UNC yearbook did have some scattered racist content, mostly related to a few fraternities. There was a lot of sexist content in those yearbooks from 1967 to 1970. There was also an enormous amount reflecting the protests and the change we were bringing to campus and to society.

[Whiskeytide]

8. None of the 3 I have - 1977-1979 - have

... anything remotely racist. High school. Alabama. The school was about 65% white and 35% black. There was racism around, certainly. But not in our yearbook.

[CurtEastPoint]

9. Mine from Charlotte, NC public schools and from UNC-Chapel Hill did NOT. Ever.

[cwydro]

19. Nope, mine either.

Myers Park and ASU.

This is a very insulting OP.

[Blue_true]

34. You know, because all southerners are closet racists, every one of them

I have travelled enough to know that the South is not much different from other parts of the country, with the exception that southerners are more susceptible to taking in the fear their politicians feed them.

[m-lekktor]

40. There's plenty of racists up here in the northeast where I am from.

Don't get me started about Boston.

[stonecutter357]

10. nothing remotely racist.

[Lochloosa]

11. ...

[kstewart33]

12. 1970 Lee High School, Huntsville Alabama.

One of the more popular students in my almost-all white high school was Lawrence Reddick, an African American who had his own church congregation in Paint Rock, Alabama. Lawrence was always running late so he picked up a few speeding tickets driving to and from Paint Rock, and a number of students contributed $$$ to cover the cost.

Don't be so quick to stereotype.

[kskiska]

13. Not just yearbooks, and not just the south

I grew up in New England and am active on several hometown Facebook groups. I look up old local newspaper archives and clip out interesting photos and articles. You'd be surprised how many minstrel shows there were over the years, even into the 60s. Large corporations, community groups, churches, and dance classes staged them. It was commonplace until the NAACP protested publicly.

[walkingman]

14. If you said in the 60's you might be more accurate. Although racism is a heritage of the US.

[Blue_true]

36. British society has some deep racial undertones.

They just do a better job of hiding it. So, it's not just the USA.

[treestar]

15. I have mine - I'll look through it.

[Sneederbunk]

16. Are you going to boil the hat first?

[MineralMan]

17. Mustard or Ketchup?

[cwydro]

23. Thank you.

Over here on the other side of the Atlantic, tune in to DU and see this crap.

Sigh. Going back to sleep.

[DashOneBravo]

30. +1

[JHB]

61. Gonna need a bigger hat

[MicaelS]

18. Wow, prejudiced much?

You better stock up hats or self delete.

[cwydro]

20. Dude, please self-delete.

Obviously, you don’t know anyone from the south.

I was in high school and college in the 70s and 80s. Never ever saw anything like that. EVER.

I don’t have the interest in checking your profile, but please enlighten us as to the perfect state where you live.

Region bashing is really not a good look.

[Miigwech]

46. I lived in Texas for years, 1979-1988

Also visited family many time in South Carolina and Florida. Not bashing a region, just telling my truth. I saw Austin Uni., Frats and Sor's having parties with members dressed as "wet backs" and open racial discrimination in hiring

[Polybius]

21. I think some salt and pepper is needed for that hat

[Phentex]

22. Yesterday I looked at a high school one from the 80's. EVERY PAGE...

yes, I looked at every page. Rural deep south.

The first thing I noticed was how blurry the pictures were. We paid good money for this? But alas, that was what we had at the time.

The next thing I noticed was how cute we all were! The poses were cheesy stuff, funny faces, a few pyramids here and there and a look of complete boredom on some of the pages.

Party page: one girl was dressed like a witch. A group had their faces painted white to look like the group Kiss. Most people wore jeans and t-shirts.

There were very few pages that weren't clubs, portraits, band, or sports. There was a single collage page of people's faces. The rest was ads and places for autographs.

Eat Your Hat

[EffieBlack]

24. And your point is what?

That because, supposedly, non-HBCU Southern colleges had racist content in their yearbooks, it wasn't a big deal that the Governor of Virginia appeared in blackface with a Klansman in his?

Or are you making another point that I missed?

[Iggo]

26. On second thought...

[Miigwech]

47. My point

the White House was built by slaves ... racism is part of the DNA of our country ... especially in the South ... the racism is the problem but more importantly, what are we gonna do about it to end it? Call it out on Northam, then call it out on all.

[EffieBlack]

50. "Call it out on Northam, then call it out on all." Funny thing about that

Whenever we "call it out on all," we get smacked down with all manner of "I've never discriminated against anyone, so how DARE you call me a racist!" - "Sure, racism exists, but you only hurt your cause when you cry wolf and claim racism is behind everything" - "don't blame ME for what someone else did"- and my new favorite song: "not ALL white people!!!""

We're constantly being told to stop talking about racism in general and just point it out when we see it. But now that we're discussing a very specific instance of racism, clear, unequivocal and directly engaged in y an identifiable person, we're told "Oh, come on. Racism is a NATIONAL problem - it's in the country's DNA. Why just focus on HIM?"

So, if that's your point, sorry, I don't buy it.

[c-rational]

54. What are we going to do about it? When you have Cancer you cut it out. When your are

taught falsehoods you resist. Keep repeating no man is better than any other man and no man is less than any other man. So many of us have been fed whitewashed history and blithely go along. If you are white you recognize the privilege you have been accorded and you work to make this world a better fairer place for All.

[Ferrets are Cool]

27. Get ready to eat.

[crazycatlady]

28. Difference here

It is one thing if Governor Joe Schmoe's classmates were racist. It is another thing if the governor himself were. IMO what sealed the deal for me is the nickname 'coonhunter.'

[DashOneBravo]

29. I swear some people think it's 1963 Alabama

I get to travel a lot with my job. And I’ve worked in CT, PA, MI and IN.

You’d be astounded at the number of people who see a middle age white guy with a strong southern accent and think it’s okay to spout racist shit.

I realize that’s not a large sample size but come on...

[nolabear]

31. My Gulf Coast Mississippi 1972 yearbook did not.

I think most of those things were reserved for those who thought they were untouchable. The privileged. Yes there was racism but the light was shone on the common folk. The rich kids were more able to be overt.

[Blue_true]

38. You made a good point.

Rich kids at my high school had their own caste, they didn't associate much with kids of other races or even their own race. I must admit that my side of town was more middleclass and poor, the, so we had maybe two rich kids. Our crosstown rival high school had plenty of rich kids, but I saw them only at sporting events.

[rampartc]

53. off topic bear,

i went to ms gulf coast jr college (gautier) in that time frame. we were mostly working at the shipyard at night and taking our classes seriously.

these ante bellum party hijinks are mostly a frat boy diversion at the sec schools.

oh, if that nola is the city, greetings from bywater.

[nolabear]

55. Even better! It was Pascagoula!

I grew up all along the coast-my father was Air Force and we lived with my grandparents who had a little meat-and-three cafe outside the old East Bank gate in Pascagoula. My mother died a pretty long death when I was young so we were there a lot. I moved to New Orleans when I graduated and, well, you know New Orleans. I’m in Seattle now but it’s my heart home.

I even lived in Gautier for a little while. Like everyone else I thought about JC, but left instead and took a few years to go to college.

We most likely passed one another at some point!

[Blue_true]

32. My High School yearbook. UF did not do yearbooks.

My school did not have a dress code, but if a kid showed up wearing confederate shit, he or she got an ass beating at the first break. My yearbook had a lot of corny jokes, but none were racially or sexual orientation offensive.

[GulfCoast66]

35. Arkansas. Here in the South. Class of 1984.

Our class president was a black guy. No racist shit in my yearbook.

Never bought my college one so can’t say.

Start chewing.

[Takket]

37. this is what happens when you think hyperbole is a legitimate argument

[MissMillie]

57. +1 (n/t)

.

[Texasgal]

39. Mine.

Austin High School 1986.

[Lunabell]

41. Hillsboro high school, Nashville Tennessee.

1977 to 1979. Never would have happened. We even had a section on African American history in our American history class taught by Doc. Peobles. Very enlightening for my formative years.

[herding cats]

42. Mine.

In what was then considered a podunk town in Texas in 1985. We were not the cutting edge of progressive thinking. For example, females in wood shop (which was still a class) was frowned upon and subjected to local gossip.

Really, racism wasn't normalized in the general public back then. If anything it was more undercover and only expressed in covert ways. Now, racist are emboldened and all act as if they're oppressed people. Which wasn't the norm 30 years ago in my experience.

I remember a school worker (some type of office staff) once on Halloween dressed up (including darker face makeup, but not quite black face. Still, the intent was clear.) as some Dallas Cowboys football player, she wore their jersey, etc. She stopped being an employee there due to her "impersonation" of that football player because it offended students and parents, and she certainly wasn't included in the year book. This was around '83 or so. It wasn't ok to be racist, but we weren't a bunch of rich and elite people. So, that may be the difference? We were just normal folks and we had a mix of minority students. Latino and African Americans being the two largest minority demographics then.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

44. Georgia, early '60s

The racism is very subtle, yet in-your-face.

There are no photos of kids wearing blackface.

But, of all the student photos, not one black face.

Institutional segregation. It was big, before LBJ.

[cwydro]

45. Where'd you go MIIGWECH?

Waiting for the hat eating video...

[Miigwech]

48. Right here

From what I read here, segregation is the big racial component. No? Where are the Black or Hispanic teachers?

[treestar]

60. Mine has black profs and many black students

Though a fraternity and sorority were all black. But they had the right to have that sorority. Maybe will look closer to see if the other ones have any black members.

[rampartc]

51. i am not pictured in blackface, but my yearbook (Auburn U 1980)

probably has a few drunken frat boys in blachface at their annual "antebellum party".

i am sure that most southern colleges (with the uncf exceptions) have (had?) something similar.

it is long overdue to stop the theme, or maybe they could stick to the hoopshirts, but participation is probably mandatory in that crowd.

[Brainstormy]

52. Mine!

and from the Mississippi Delta, and in the late 60s. I've combed through them since this mess came up.

[CherokeeDem]

56. Mine.....

High School in Greenville SC pre-bussing. My high school was over 2000 students, in an upscale area of town. Our mascot was a Confederate general and the most loved student at the high school was a black guy. Stop making stereotypical assumptions. I saw more racism when I moved to the Ohio area than I ever saw in South Carolina.

[treestar]

59. Mine does not

looked through it for the first time in ages.

1981 from a Southern U. But it was known as liberal in its state.