Hope Shorts Series—Willie Ben - Blacks Clueless About College Admissions

Michael and Carrie Kline, Talking Across the Lines

Willie Ben Pritchett, an Honors Student, football and track star and glee club member, discusses the educational dead ends for black students at Mount Hope High School when he graduated in 1964, unless the students already had a family member with experience in navigating the college admissions process. Pritchett goes on to describe how he survived and finally thrived. He exemplifies the idea of “each one pull one,” on an underground railroad from Mount Hope, WV to Washington, D.C.