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Felix Mercado was born in Worland in 1940. His parents, originally from Mexico, had traveled around the United States, eventually settling in Worland as sugar beet farmers where he and his older brothers grew up. I always look forward to going to school in the fall because summers, while we were working in the fields, etc., were a little hard, recalled Mercado.
Mercado said his childhood was normal. He played with friends and brothers. But when he entered first grade, he noticed something. We were kept separate. There were white kids living in our neighborhood. But none of them ever went to that school, he said.
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