Terry Sneed Brown was born in Washington, North Carolina, in 1951. A time when the racial divide in this small rural Eastern North Carolina community was very evident. From being kicked off an all white outdoor tennis court at the age of 8, to being refused service at the counter in Woolworth’s, to having the climb the fire escape steps in the alley at the Turnage Theater just to get to the balcony of the theatre where Blacks had to sit, to being a part of the first integated senior class and Washigton High School after attend P.S. Jones for so many years. Brown shares these and other stories of the racism that he encountered as a youth and during his adult life. But, he holds no grudges. “I’m not going to let anyone or anything hold me back from doing what I want to do!”