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which was predominantly black and Latin, to this multicultural block.

Within four blocks of us, we had the United Nations.

My father getting a job and being promoted to the advertising manager for a company called HomeLight.

They were upwardly mobile, I guess is the word that was bandied about then.

I was seven.

Yeah.

Yeah, he did.

And particularly in the early 60s when the Egyptian exhibition came through New York.

Yeah, yeah, it was.

We spent a lot of time there.

And my mother's sister, Ruth, she always lived, she always made sure she lived near a center of culture.

So

If it was not the New York Museum, it was the Brooklyn Museum or the Botanical Gardens.

We're always, always exposed to things like that.

Absolutely.

It resonated with me deeper than I could have ever expected.

And particularly when meeting them and talking with some of the older people who understood the history, because it's the history of

Dark-skinned Indians who were marginalized by Hollywood are alive and well in New Orleans.

And you can see their pageantry.

That is not something that came with the wild bill shows after the Civil War.