Two interviews with Ericka Huggins.(Reflections from the Seminar)

This article presents the conversation between Erica Huggins and Tony Platt. Platt says he wanted to get as far away from his patriarchal father as possible. He wanted to travel and was attracted to the beat movement and the cultural movements on the West Coast. England is the place that he wanted to leave forever, but he finds himself going back and revisiting like one does with a homeland. Huggins said when she left Washington, DC, she did not ever want to go back, because it so reminded her of a plantation. Before she went to Lincoln, she attended Cheney State Teachers College for a year. She found out much later that Cheney, Lincoln, and Wilberforce University in Ohio were black colleges, but she didn't know that history. Those three were the first of the 103 historical black colleges to open during slavery. So it was a conscious choice that she made unconsciously. Adapted from the source document.