Lloyd and Shirley Wallace
Photo courtesy: Albert W. Durant Collection, Visual Resources, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, "Bruton Heights School Band"
Interviewer: Growing up, what were some of the separations between the white community and the native Black community?
Mr. Wallace: I can recall going to the theatre, they had rows of 2 seats for Blacks.
Interviewer: the Kimball?
Mrs. Wallace: We remember when we couldn't go in it!
Interviewer: So what was the transition?
Mrs. Wallace: They gave us 2 seats.
Interviewer: Do you remember about when that was?
Mrs. Wallace: It was about the late 50s when we were able to go in there, and I want to say it happened after Brown v. Board of Education, and CW didn't want no adverse nothing in this town so they opened that little piece up to us.
WallaceLloyd4.23.10ambient.mp3Audio of interview with Mr. Lloyd and Mrs. Shirley Wallace | Conducted by Morgan Flaherty, Will Carmines, and Edith Heard | April 23, 2010 | Williamsburg Documentary Project Collection | Special Collections Research Center | William & Mary Libraries