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Probably not as he had to drive into the city to rescue his mother during the riots of the 1960s when they were burning houses in her neighborhood. Dad didn't want her to go back home but she did.

Grandma walked to church every day. He told her not to carry a "handbag" and she didn't. But two African Americans knocked her down on her way home from church. The only money she had went in the collection plate.
That fall resulted in a broken hip! She never did return home, lived with us and then in a nursing home.

Dad was a foreman at a manufacturing plant and was in charge of production control. African Americans made up about half of that line and he had to deal with employees arriving hung over, late or not at all. Impossible to keep the line moving when someone doesn't show up!