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As time again for StoryCorps, Americans interview each other, we hear the every day stories and every week we find out how amazing many of the stories are. Today, the story from the Jim McFarland.

My grandmother used to take my brother and myself to the South, every summer.

Jim McFarland grew up in New York, he has relatives in South Carolina, and it would take him to see them regularly in the late 1940s and early 50s. When we rode the train coming from New York, when we headed to DC, when we got out of an integrated car, I thought this was the greatst thing that could ever happen coz now mean a car with all my people when, they got the brown paperback, with grease chick in, and the sandwiches, we had a good time. When we got off, the train, my grandmother would always have my brother will not use the bathroom. The bathrooms were marked colored and white. When I was younger, I could read a C, but I didn't know the word colored. So she would say, use one with the C on it, you can't use one with W. When we went to movies, we had to seen in balcony. In New York, as a child growing up how we want to see in the balcony, because the balcony which has a doughts, and people have smoke. When I should get back to New York, the majority of the little brothers on my block had never been in south, And they would ask me, they say boy what you see, what's the south about? I used to tell them, man I say then brothers got it going on in the south. And ...., as we get our own bathroom. We have our won water fountain. And the particular time, my grandmother would never tell us the children why she left the South or any thing, When I asked her about these things of races and segregation she will always tell me, Shui, we don't talk about that, that something we don't say. you when ... realize what segregation was about, then I told my grandmother I wouldn't go South anymore.

Jim McFarland did return to the South, 20 years later. He now lives in Atlanta where his story was recorded. His interview like all the others will be archived to the library of congress. You can have more of them, and subscribe to the Storycorps podcast to the NPR.org, support for StoryCorps comes from AT&T, with the additional funding from the corporation for public broadcasting.