Girl who was banned for being black finally fulfills her wish to eat in train dining car
As a young girl, Dorothy Flood would take a train with her family to visit relatives in the South, but because of the color of their skin, none of them were allowed in the dining car.
More than six decades have passed since, but Flood’s desire to dine in style aboard a train remained, and in May, the now 75-year-old woman finally got a chance to make her dream a reality.
On May 30, Flood flew from Houston, Texas where she lives in a retirement home, to Canon City, Colorado, to get on the Royal Gorge Route Railroad and have the meal that has been 65 years in the making, the Grio reported.
Flood grew up in the ethnically diverse and tolerant Jersey City, New Jersey, but every summer, from the time she was six until she was nine, she would travel by train with her grandmother to the deeply segregated North Carolina, which was like another country to her.
On each trip, Flood recalled she always wondered why when the train reached a certain part of the country, she had to move.
‘When we'd get to Baltimore, that was the Mason-Dixon Line,’ Flood told NPR. ‘The African-Americans would go in the back…and white people would go into separate cars.
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