An White 84-year-old resident of Sawyerville, Alabama except for his 27 years working in the Columbia University Libraries in New York reflects on growing up in the 1940s and 1950s in a racist rural society, describes his own and his family's interactions with Black neighbors over time, ponders his own evolving attitudes concerning racial matters, and reveals his family's recent discovery of a number of mixed-race first and second cousins and how...