I was terrified of the other children and of Mrs. I don't know how they talked the principal into going along, but sure enough, on the first day of school in September 1958, my mother took me by the hand and walked me into Mrs. My mother was teaching at Fairfield Industrial High School in Alabama, and the idea was to enroll me in the elementary school located on the same campus. My first memory of confronting them and in a way declaring my independence was a conversation concerning their ill-conceived attempt to send me to first grade at the ripe age of three. My parents were anxious to give me a head start in life - perhaps a little too anxious. It just wasn't in him."Įxtraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family "My dad was not someone who you would strike with a billy club and he wouldn't strike back. "My father was very clear about why he wouldn't ," Rice says. Rice says she overheard her parents discussing the marches, and John Rice's decision to stay away. Instead, Rice says, they did other things to show their support - like boycotting certain stores and refusing to give student protesters' names to state authorities. Rice's parents did not march in the various civil rights rallies taking place in Birmingham. Luckily for all involved, Santa plopped young Condoleezza onto his knee and asked her what she wanted for Christmas. My dad was a big man - he was 6 foot 2 and built like a football player." "I wasn't really sure who was going to go off here - Santa Claus or Daddy. "I sort of went forward with a lot of trepidation," she says. Rice recalls her father saying, "If he does that to Condoleezza, I'm going to pull all that stuff off him, and just expose him as the cracker that he is."
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