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Is Leggett Just Too Likable?
Leggett talks with Bob Resnik and Lou Schap during a neighborhood campaign get-together in Bethesda.
(By Robert A. Reeder -- The Washington Post)
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Leggett complied, thinking the man wanted help judging the distance. Then the golfer fired away, using him as a flagstick.
He could have refused to stand there and told the golfer off. But this was Alexandria circa 1956, and a black child did not speak to a white man like that.
Thwack .
The ball landed nearby. But Leggett didn't flinch. His mother had told him since he was a baby that to survive the Deep South, he would have to stay cool and be smart.
Thwack .
Don't get mad, she'd say. Don't complain. Work hard. You will rise above this place.
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You're going to go to college, she told him, and be successful.
When he went home that evening and told his mother what had happened, she said, One day you are going to own that golf course.
Paying for College
She had often told him that he was going to go to college. But she never said how he would pay for it.
Leggett's high school football coach told him about Southern University's work-study program, where students received a stipend for campus jobs. So a couple of weeks after his high school graduation, he took the bus to Baton Rouge, went to the office and asked to be admitted to the program.
Applications were due weeks ago, he was told. The program's full.
