Indiana University South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center Oral History Project [Barbara Brandy]: I went to Linden. That’s where Martin Luther King Center is now. In my class, there were two white boys and one white girl, was in that class of thirteen students. The school was predominately black back in ’48, ’49. It was getting that way because it was starting to have what you call “white flight.” ‘Bout the only whites in the neighborhood was the old Polish families or Hungarian families that refused to move, because they were embedded in the community. [Les Lamon]: Any white teachers? [Barbara Brandy]: Oh yes. [Les Lamon]: Any black teachers I mean? [Barbara Brandy]: Not when I was at Linden, no. No. The principal and everyone was white. In fact, a white girl in the class that we had was my best friend. We would go to each other’s home. But the strange thing was that, once we got to Central and she’d begin to make friends of other whites, she quit speaking. And I thought that was a little odd because I befriended her when none of the other black students would. And now that she had friends of whites, she did not know me. It kind of hurt, for a while, but then I said, “Well, consider the source. And you leave it alone.” But she’s the one that lost. [Les Lamon]: She lost. [Barbara Brandy]: [laughs]