by Randi Weiner - The Journal News in Piermont, NY USA
Clarence Branch Jr. has been fortunate in his life - enough so that the acts of racial prejudice he encounters still surprise him as much as anger him.
As one of the first black teachers in the South Orangetown schools in the early 1960s, he said he has been welcomed, respected and considered part of the community for as long as he could recall, despite coming to the nearly all-white school district when racial tensions made the news on a nearly daily basis.
