DesertFox
08-06-2006, 05:00 PM
Randolf Tobias was born in the Bronx, raised in Brooklyn, and spent about a year of his childhood in Queens.
His first experience with the South came as a student at Richmond's Virginia Union University, where he staged sit-ins to desegregate department stores.
When it came time for retirement, the 66-year-old college professor and his wife left Long Island last year and moved to Charlotte, eventually settling in Huntersville.
"I never looked back," he said. "The South, for black people
More (http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/15210228.htm)
His first experience with the South came as a student at Richmond's Virginia Union University, where he staged sit-ins to desegregate department stores.
When it came time for retirement, the 66-year-old college professor and his wife left Long Island last year and moved to Charlotte, eventually settling in Huntersville.
"I never looked back," he said. "The South, for black people
More (http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/15210228.htm)