Excerpt of Testimony

“. . . I am reminded as well of the preamble to the Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens which all of you are aware of, I am sure: ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom; it was the age of foolishness. It was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity. It was the season of light, it was the season of darkness. It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. We had everything before us, we had nothing before us.’”

— Former Mayor Ralph S. Locher, testifying before the United States Commission on Civil Rights, April 1, 1966