Brenda Luckett remembers learning about segregation now they end started at Memphis and their first franchise Hotel was here in Clarkdale and I wanted to swim in a swimming pool I I kept telling my daddy I wanted to stop there I want to go there and he told me he he would just tell me no we can’t we can’t go there we can’t go there finally he had to explain to me why we couldn’t go they said that all the white people can go to that hotel and to that music you know and to that pool I can remember that as being the first time that I knew that there was any such thing as segregation she’s part of the last generation of Americans to have lived under the Jim Crow laws which legalized segregation and 60 years on she’ll be voting in an election royed by racial Division I always had that entrepreneur Spirit Lorenzo Washington remembers that earlier time too he got a job at a gas station as a teenager making 50 cents an hour when his boss found out he was saving to buy a car he cut his shifts he didn’t want black folk to have anything Washington says his boss would also hurl racist slurs at black workers and manhandle them and when I turned 16 I i’ I thought I’d stand up for myself so I stood my ground Johnny new faced a quieter systemic racism his father was a gifted tractor mechanic since day was so influential and and knew how to to to fix the tractor they had him training couple of little white gentlemen and dad said that when he looked at his check which was $60 and the young white males came back and showed dad their check that check was more than my father and he was the trainer my dad said he fell down on his knees and cried Luckett went on to become a special education teacher she told her students to never let people stop them from learning Washington became a music promoter and producer in 2010 he opened a museum showcasing Nashville’s black music scene in hopes of offering something to the next Generations new’s father quit his job after learning about the pay Gap he opened his own business new Auto Parts in 1971 which new inherited my dad business across the street that’s his legacy that’s generational wealth I intend to leave that for my children and I hope my children leave for their children