Not Mad at Texas

On her way East last month to take a scholarship at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Iva Begay, a Navaho girl, had gotten the Jim Crow treatment in a bus near Amarillo, Tex. Shocked and scared, she went back to the reservation (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, as she was playing the piano for a service in a little Protestant church in Flagstaff, Ariz., an invitation arrived. How would she like to fly to the big Tri-State Fair at Amarillo, with all expenses paid? Amarillo wanted to "open its collective arms and heart" to Florence, so that she would forget her last memory of Texas.

Florence went to the fair, met the mayor, knocked over four ducks in a shooting gallery, and was interviewed on two radio broadcasts.

Said Florence: "I'm not mad at Texas at all because of what happened before. I think the people of Amarillo are swell. . ." But she was not planning to resume her interrupted trip East. She had enrolled in Arizona State College.

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