Upward Bound (UB), created in 1965 to provide educational enrichment for low-income youths, had to be racially integrated. In 1966, I was among three White northern teens sent to integrate UB at Xavier University in New Orleans. My family had lived in North Carolina in the early 1960s, participating in civil rights actions, so I had had some exposure to White responses to integration. I excerpt my letters home that summer of 1966 to assess the essentially White curriculum of UB. Two years prior to my stint in New Orleans, Freedom Schools had emerged in 1964 in Mississippi. Freedom Schools were in stark contrast to White Citizens Council schools that flourished in response to the "Brown" decision. Freedom Schools and, to an extent, UB, offered powerful alternatives to segregated educational settings. As an older White woman shaped by the civil rights movement, I now work in a coalition for educational reparations.