If I had to do it over again [the trouble to get to school], I’d do it over again.

Well, we had a basketball team, a soccer team, the girls had a volleyball team…I came to Robert Moton in 1957 and I graduated in 1961.  I ran the track team, and we had the basketball team—they were almost like the Harlem Globetrotters, they used to say…they were that good.   ...on the soccer team, we won one game—that was a thrill for us, because we won a  soccer game!

[The bus ride] was nice, it was fun.  In the winter, we’d cuddle up on the seats to keep warm, and in the summer we took the windows down—back then, we could stick our heads out the window a little bit, and get some air.  The bus driver was a nice man. Sometimes in the evenings, if he had to go to Sykesville, he’d let us get off, and go into the ice cream parlor, and we’d get ice cream, then get back on.

[Homework on the bus] That was up to us, I guess—we weren’t made to do our homework on the bus—and we was having too much fun, so a whole lot of homework didn’t get done.

In later years, they brought in typing, where we could learn how to type.  We had a pretty good time.

[Girls] They did the Home Ec. And guys did the Shop. 

[After high school] I went to work in the State Hospital.  I started as a food service worker, and I moved up to head cook, and I finally moved up to a baker, so when I retired from there I was a Baker II at the hospital.

View the video interview for William Hudson at the Carroll County History Project website, "Carroll County - Through the Eyes of the Black Experience": http://carrollhistory.org/tebe.html