Gregory Manning, a member of the Kenyetta Dance Company, performs during last year’s African-American Heritage Banquet in the Grand Ballroom of the Martin Luther King, Jr. University Union. (File photo/The Daily Eastern News)

In 1962, in the segregated Choctaw County, Alabama, 18-year-old Carl Ray responded to a white man’s questions with just “yes” and “no” instead of “yes, sir” and “no, sir.”

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