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DocuSign Envelope ID:6FBOD2B6-B8D3-4136-A376-20FDC2D04FC7 <br /> Freddie Parker pointed to the new hardships during desegregation at Orange <br /> High: plummeting grades for black students, fights, walk-outs. <br /> "When we were first bringing segregation to an end, I don't think we really <br /> stopped to consider the costs," Parker said. "Now, do I want to go back to <br /> segregation? No." <br /> "But everything I learned, I learned at (the all-black) Central High School. ... <br /> Everybody was involved in your life at those all-black institutions, principals, <br /> custodians, teachers. ... That support didn't always follow you after <br /> desegregation." <br /> Coming together <br /> Eighth-grader Aneesha Abdur-Razzaq said she learned from the event the <br /> challenges that African-American students had faced - both before and after <br /> school desegregation. <br /> "(1 learned) how it was so segregated, still after segregation had ended," Abdur- <br /> Razzaq said. "And how fortunate we are, because they had to walk really far to <br /> their schools." <br /> Free Spirit Freedom hopes to encourage exactly those kinds of realizations, <br /> Renee Price said. While laws may promote equality, change must continue on a <br /> community level, she said. <br /> "You still have to change people's minds and attitudes and hearts - and you <br /> have to do that by coming together," she said. "You do that by sharing stories, <br /> realizing you have the same stories, or were in the same room at the same time <br /> (in history)." <br /> Sendor,julia.b.sendor@gmail.com <br /> Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/community/chapel-hill- <br /> news/article12482093.html#storylink=cpy <br />