Tony Berry – Overcoming Segregation
Tony Berry talks about growing up with everything being segregated, from movie theaters and water fountains to hospitals and cemeteries. He remembers having to order his food with his mom and leave the store since they were not allowed to sit in the many empty seats. Growing up segregated gave him an inferiority complex and suppressed his potential. He finally saw what it was like to finally be in an integrated society while deployed in Germany.
CLICK HERE to see Tony Berry in one of our Vietnam Roundtables
CLICK HERE to see Tony’s Short Story about how his father built and ran the first ‘black’ newspaper “The Houston Informer”
CLICK HERE to see his Short Story about landing a plane in a combat zone
CLICK HERE to see his Short Story about some of his tasks working in a military morgue