How difficult was it for you to get to and from school?

"It was very difficult because in inclement weather we had to walk to school. Also, this was during segregation and we would have to fight Hendersonville High School students going to and coming from school." ~Billy Dean Cox (9th Avenue)

"Most of the years I had to walk regardless of the weather, (there were no bad weather days) Often times there would be confrontations with white kids as we walked through the white areas.  Nothing serious, however, we would often be harassed by the police." ~Frank Wilson (9th Avenue 1951-1962)

 "Walking across the hill or down the hill." ~Doris Barnett Byorum (6th and 9th Avenue 1943-1955)

"In my family there were 10 children and my father was fortunate enough to be able to get off from his job each morning to drive us to school. In the afternoons, we walked home without incident." ~Jessie Jenkins-Wilson (9th Avenue class of 1965)  

"It was easy, my mother was a teacher at Ninth Ave. School, so I rode with her." ~Renee Mims Payne (9th Avenue class of 1965)

"At one time we had bus service-from East side of town-My mother would take us to school and sometimes we would walk." ~Madeline Cunningham Royes (6th and 9th Avenue)

"Their was no bussing at the time in the area we lived in so we had to walk to and from school. School was never closed due to weather. Their was few families that owned vehicles, we were poor." ~Wilhelmina R. Mills (6th and 9th Avenue)

"No difficulty, Bus came right by our home." ~Lila Deloris Hill Wilson (9th Avenue class of 1962)

"No, we walked. My last several years we rode a bus." ~Harry M. Wilson Jr. (9th Avenue class of 1962)

"It was not difficult because I rode the School Bus from home to school and back home." ~Thelma L. Payne (9th Avenue class of 1965)

"Not difficult." ~Lottie Featherstone Maxwell (6th and 9th Avenue)

"Walking 2 miles to catch school bus. And passing by the white schools, we were the N word all the time." ~Lillie Ann Recolia Brooks Brown (9th Avenue)

"I walked from 3rd Avenue to 9th Avenue for 12 years. In the winter months it was very difficult." ~Catherine Richmond (9th Avenue class of 1964)

"Rode the bus!" ~Catherine Richmond (9th Avenue class of 1964)

"We would catch bus at 6 or 6:30 am and get home around 5 or 5:30 pm. Sometimes buses broke down and we would sit on road for 1 hour to 1.5 hours or longer." ~William E. Payne (9th Avenue)

"Not difficult at all because I lived very near to the school." ~ Bessie "Judy" Owen (9th Avenue 1950-1960)

"I don't remember." ~ George Davis (9th Avenue) 

"Not difficult for me because I live across the St. from 6th Avenue, down the hill from 9th Avenue." ~ Lillie Ann Y. Ricketts (6th and 9th Avenue 1949-1961)

"Hard sometime especially when it snowed because we had to walk." ~Cora Johnson A. Young (6th and 9th Avenue)

"We lived in various neighborhoods in the city, some were closer to the school, not too bad walking, there were no buses, the one farthest away, was a bad walk in the winter, rain and sometimes snow." ~ Geraldine H. McMinn (9th Avenue)

"Not difficult. We walked. Our family didn't own a car. We walked everywhere." ~ Ronnie W. Pepper (9th Avenue 1962-1965)

"It was very difficult for me to get to and from school because we had to walk both ways. When I was in grades 1-8 I lived on First Ave W. and had to walk to 6th Ave Elem. School. It was so cold that my hands, feet, and legs were too numb to study or write. The classroom had a pot belly stove to heat the classroom. It was rough! When I went to high school, my family had moved to Third Ave. West and I had to walk to and from high school. Getting to high school had its problems but I could endure them better because o was old. The high school was heated by a furnace which made things better." ~ Edith Cash Sloan (6th and 9th Avenue)

"None at all, stayed in the community." ~Albert H Summey (6th and 9th Avenue)

"Not at all, I was across the street from 6th Ave so I walked to both of them." ~Albert H Summey (6th and 9th Avenue)

"No problem getting to school, because we rode the bus from Brevard to Hendersonville." ~Robert G. Smith III (9th Avenue 1962-1963)

"1. It was very difficult riding 21 miles to school each and every day. I never missed a day while attending school." ~William Wynn, Jr. (9th Avenue)

"Had no difficult I walk to and from." ~Cash Bill (6th and 9th Avenue)

"We rode the School bus from Brevard to Hendersonville High School." ~Barbara Moss Cash (9th Avenue)

"I lived in the clear creek section. Had to catch school bus at 7 am. Go to Dana to pick up and East Flat Rock- then to 9th Avenue West." ~Edna Mesbitt Allman (9th Avenue)

"We always had to walk from Brooklyn to 9th Avenue." ~ Diane Caldwell (9th Avenue)

"1943-1945 I walked from the eastside or Brooklyn; 1945-1948 I rode a bicycle or roller-skates; about 1949-1950 there was a bus." ~James Thurman Robinson (6th and 9th Avenue 1942-1952)