![There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do.](/assets/img/quote-photos/there-wasnt-much-white-people-would-allow-us-to-do-in-those-days-you-could-be-a.jpg)
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