Other times, they coordinated their schedules for staffing the neighborhood polling stations. Sometimes it was a local business that discriminated against black residents. Many days, I would wade through the overcrowded Douglas living room filled with preachers, educators, politicians and various other neighborhood luminaries who were gathered to solve one problem or another. They were what anyone would call pillars of our community.
Her husband, Charles, was a science teacher, a middle school basketball coach and a city housing commissioner. Patricia Douglas gave piano lessons to subsidize her career as the music teacher rotating among our black elementary schools. Each Wednesday when I was young, I would journey deep into that establishment, to the Douglas family’s beautiful home for an hour-long piano lesson.
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