Tag: Combat Zone Boston

• The ‘Colored Only’ Fountain

  In 1969, passing through Atlanta on a Greyhound bus, I drank from a fountain marked “Colored Only”—and waited to see what would happen.

  RMDell’Orfano

  March 11, 2026

  Autobio

  Abraham, American South, Atlanta, civil rights, Combat Zone Boston, conscience, Florida journey, Genesis, Greyhound bus, leaving home, Martin Luther King Jr., racial injustice, segregation, spiritual pilgrimage