MLK Day Speakers Share Stories of Discrimination
Evege James talked about discrimination in Detroit bakeries during an event held at the Farmington Community Library Main Library.
It may be hard today to imagine a world where the color of your skin would determine where you are allowed to work, but that's a world Evege James knows all too well. James, a speaker at Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day commemoration at the Farmington Community Library Main Library, grew up in the Deep South, where Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in schools, transportation and other public places. He started working for American Bakeries in Detroit in 1965, one of only a handful of black people among the company's 100 or so employees. Even though the civil rights movement was in full swing, he said the company still kept black men and women and white women from taking some jobs. "When I came here, it seemed like it wasn't …
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