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The south side boasted the glittering Miller & Rhoads and Thalheimer’s department stores. It was lined with stylish shops, hotels and restaurants, all pristinely segregated. The north side had the cheaper stores, motion picture theaters (blacks could sit in the balconies of some of them) and black business establishments.
Whites delicately referred to the “right side” and “wrong side” of Broad Street when such a distinction had to be made. There wasn’t much doubt about which was which.
But in Richmond last week white and black citizens joyously mingled as a ribbon was cut opening the Marketplace and the bridge over the street. Gov. Chuck Robb, Richmond Renaissance Chairman T. Justin Moore, Mayor Roy A. West and others spoke of the deep symbolism involved.
Old-time Richmonders, black and white, remembered. For many, that bridge, at last, represented the dawning of a new day for the city and the commonwealth. A cultural and ethnic chasm was at last closed.
But that same day in Farmville other things were happening which were a throwback to the era the crowds in Richmond were trying to put behind them.
Former Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. was giving Republican candidate for governor Wyatt B. Durrette a tour of the Southside. At the home of Josiah Bunting, president of Hampden-Sydney College, Godwin suddenly fell into a line of campaign rhetoric which he seems to find hard to resist when he is talking to crowds of like-minded citizens. He launched an attack on
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