“There was freedom of choice to choose friends, and be chosen for other reasons. Instinctively, I knew which people would be repugnant to me as well as I to them. One of those persons, a classmate from Alabama, said in the presence of another Black classmate in another dorm that her parents would die if they knew she was eating at the same table with a Black student. My Black friend made it her business to sit at that table when the Alabama parents visited. There was much open, sincere conversation – some of it fostered by the Fellowship of Faith – about interracial relationships and problems…And perhaps unguarded remarks revealing personal racism on the part of “friends” were painful.”*
*1973 Interview with Sharon E. Lewis for History 265 “Black and White Americans”