Interview with James Bash
QUESTION 4
INTERVIEWER:

COULD YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT MEETING?

James Bash:

Well, the meeting… Yeah. The meeting was um very interesting to me, uh, it was um, set up in such a way that uh PTA presidents were on the stage of Jarmen auditorium and uh Longwood College and a lot of other uh, leading citizens, a man with the name of Morris Large was the person who headed the, who M.C.'d the uh proceedings and each of the PTA presidents came to the microphone and made a statement about um, school desegregation and about having interviewed, uh, and talked to all the patrons in their particular school area and not one was in favor of desegregation. So from then on, that time on after all of the uh PTA representatives had uh made their statements uh, they uh, it was, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the meeting was to decide, to make some kind of decision with respect to continuing public schools uh, if they had to desegregate.