Having grown up and lived in a Harlem neighborhood in New York City, before I shipped off to the Army in 1943, I knew what it felt like to be treated like a 2nd class citizen in America. As a young kid growing up, you knew that you were not welcomed or even allowed to be in certain neighborhoods, swim in public pools, shop in certain stores or even think of getting a paperboy job outside of your “designated area”. I remember being in a summer camp program when I was about 12