The Common Reader. July, 2018
In the spring of 1968, Larman and Geraldine Williams were among the first black homebuyers in Ferguson, Missouri. Larman Williams, a public school principal, worked in the Wellston district, one of just two school districts in St. Louis County with a majority black population. A few years back, the Williams family had lived in Kinloch, the other St. Louis community with a majority-black—in Kinloch’s case, a 100 percent black—student body. Kinloch bordered what, at that time, was the all-white enclave of Ferguson.