"I was really afraid to go to a black school because I had come up in a white environment..." from Judith Diggs Potter '64

"I was really afraid to go to a black school because I had come up in a white environment..." from Judith Diggs Potter '64

Lesley University

From 18:15 and 27:52 of Judith Diggs Potter's oral history.

Lesley University

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3.001 Lesley University Archives Oral History Collection, 2008-2010

Alyssa Pacy

Judith Diggs Potter

"I remember my interview with Martha Ackerson...I mean she looked at my grades and...I think they knew that they needed somebody like me because I had done so well in high school...I had a pre-college requisite."

"I didn't want for friends...and I kind of blossomed socially because of the black fraternal and sorority 05 organizations. These girls at Lesley would go off to the college inn...they would go off downtown to the red light district...I didn't go with them because I went...into my black world in Roxbury...It was a lot of fun. We used to have parties at people's parents' homes. No drinking allowed, we just danced to music."
18:15

"I guess it kind of--it went over my head...I didn't ever feel discriminated against, probably because I kept everyone laughing."
27:52

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