“One of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Thornton’s granddaughters, Virgie Lee Tanner, lived near them in Mobile. At 25 she has 4 children. Having been married for 6 years to Henry Tanner, 34, a mechanic at Brookley Air Force Base. Discrimination in employment does not affect her family – her husband’s civil service job pays $80 a week – but other restraints do affect them. They must tell their children that they cannot they cannot play in a nearby playground for whites, but must use a separate but equal one for negroes. The children do not understand the logic of this, and view the white playground as a special, wonderful place from which they are being deliberately excluded. The Tanners’ house is a 2-room, $20 a month shack with one bedroom in which all 6 members of the family sleep. Little else is available for them to rent in the segregated neighborhood in which they live. Mr. Tanner is now taking the only way out of the situation he can see: he is building his own 4-bedroom house on a lot he has purchased in another part of town. But he has no illusions about what it will be when he is finished: another small, crowded house in another segregated neighborhood.”