Retired now, his hair and beard wispy white, David Myers recently sat down in a wheelchair in his cozy Frisco apartment to recount his journey. Books, albums and newspaper clippings lay on the bed next to him and tell the history of his part in a key civil rights movement.
His life is more peaceful now, but he hasn’t lost any interest in race relations.
"We're better off than we were in 1960, but we've got a long way to go,' Myers said. "We're not a post-race society."
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