George L. Kelling was born in Milwaukee on Aug. 21, 1935, and graduated from that city’s Washington High School in 1952. It was not a better world, he said: Jim Crow was still in force. But in “one respect it was better: I was raised in a world in which neither my parents nor I worried a whole lot about my safety.”

Source: Los Angeles Times May 16, 2019 20:26 UTC