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...Union event was the only moment of organized talk in a year marked by silence and insult. The person who made it happen was at the time just a first-year student: Freshman Black Table President Alvin L. Bragg...
...parents, Sadie and Alvin Sr., were notnative New Yorkers. In fact, they met in eighthgrade in the 22,000-person town of Petersburg,Va., 22 miles southwest of Richmond...
Sadie, the valedictorian of Petersburg'sPeabody High School, won a scholarship to localVirginia State University; Alvin Sr. Went off toSyracuse University in New York, and the coupleMarried during his senior year there...
...grew up in a small town" with strong localinstitutions like church, Boy Scouts and girlScouts, Alvin Sr. says. "That's one thing weagreed on--we would raise him like we wereraised...
...wanted Alvin to be raised so he wouldunderstand growing up as a Black kid and alsoliving in a predominantly white world," his fathersays. "He would be educated, but would have torelate to people who weren't thatwell-educated...so he could understand bothworlds...