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Watermelon Credo

By: Wally Amos

...hank you, Aunt Della!) I was born in Tallahassee, Florida, in the years before Americans began to make good on the promise of racial equality. Igno... ....S. Constitution, Jim Crow laws of the period made it possible for one group of Americans to denigrate and discriminate against another group of Am... ...ime when ex-slaves were seen eating watermelon on rural roadsides while polite white society ate their watermelon off plates in the parlor or out o... ... shocked to learn that only 50 years ago it was considered a no-no for African Americans to eat watermelon in public, it may be even more shocking ...

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