He was as poor, or more poor than we were and lived around the corner from me. He had an old beat-up guitar and was pretty good with it, even back then. We also played sandlot football and he played with us Negroes all the time. In fact, I clearly recall seeing Elvis and BB King on a street corner playing together during their hungry days. And (all of ) that was before the world knew there was an Elvis Presley.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "He was as poor, or more poor than we were and lived around the corner from me. He had an old beat-up guitar and was pretty good with it, even back then. We also played sandlot football and he played with us Negroes all the time. In fact, I clearly recall seeing Elvis and BB King on a street corner playing together during their hungry days. And (all of ) that was before the world knew there was an Elvis Presley." in the context of "Fred Lackland, African American student at Booker T Washington High School in Memphis, TN, in an article published by the Jackson Advocate on July 27th, 1957 and entitled "Elvis Presley's start with negroes in Memphis told"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.