Rodney Layman Reid

African American, Childhood, Civil Rights, Indiana, Oral History

1968 was a definitive time for Rodney Reid. He started high school at the beginning of the mandate for desegregation. Rodney helped to found the Human Relations Council which brought a better balance to student government.

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