A Friendship That Made History with Eric Christianson
Tonight, we’re sharing a remarkable story that began with a radio broadcast, a letter, and a simple act of friendship. In 1959, Roselyn Davids was listening to an NBC radio program hosted by Bob Considine when she heard David Sims, a Black father of eight living in South Bend, Indiana, say that he had never been invited into a white person’s home as a guest. Roselyn decided to change that. She and her husband, Marienus, invited the entire Sims family to their farm near Spring Valley, Minnesota. What followed was a friendship between two families that crossed racial lines during a turbulent…
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