It is October 1962, and the civil rights struggle is in its early hours. Wake Forest College (not yet a university} joins the struggle and in the spring of 1962, votes to integrate the school.

It is the first private school of higher education in the South to do so.

Ed Reynold, from Ghana, starts classes in September 1962, and a month later Martin Luther King comes for dinner and speaks on campus to an overflow crowd in Wait Chapel.

My older brother Glenn is the leader of the student group mainly responsible for the integration of Wake Forest and also for the invitation to Dr. King to have dinner and speak.

Change is in the air. Much seems possible - all because a group of students, faculty and administrative people tried their best to do the right thing.

This is the beginning of that story.