Updated: 11:18 AM CST Feb 13, 2021 By WTAE This month, Hearst Television is celebrating Black history by having courageous conversations. The fight for civil rights and justice goes back generations and has looked different each decade. We’re speaking with community leaders, elders – those who have lived through victories and troubled times, to talk about their experiences, and compare them with what we still struggle with today.The halls of the Schenley High School building in a Pittsburgh neighborhood — the sound of silence is the modern atmospheric setting. If you were to wind back the clock, you'd hear the halls filled with students, classrooms with educators preparing future generations, and the screech of sneakers against the basketball court in the gym.The sound of silence doesn't mean the high school is empty. In fact, it still has life in it in the form of tenants. Now called Schenley Apartments, the former high school is occupied by people living in converted corridors and classrooms. Jim Crable shared his story with Chris Lovingood, a reporter for sister station WTAE, at the former high school. Crable was once a student there after moving to Pittsburgh in the 1950s. He's had a hand in starting youth sports for the Sewickley Community Center and for the Quaker Valley area in suburban Pittsburgh. "Hotels have turned into nursing homes. High schools have turned into research centers of sorts, but this, what did you say this is?" Crable said. "An apartment complex?"Crable is visibly taken aback by the massive changes done to the school. However, the changes of the school pale in comparison to the changes he said he witnessed over his 77 years.Crable took a moment to reflect on a painful history he had with racism, starting with his time in Brownsville, where he was born and went to grade school."I knew that I was different. I knew I was a different color," Crable said. "And in a lot of cases, when some folks got mad at me, they'd let me know I was a different color when they'd pick up a pet name to call me."When Lovingood asked what kind of names he was called, Crable responded: "Yeah, the N-word, and then we might see, we might (see) in a geography book or a history book, what, back then was a 'colored person.' And that colored person would have a name. Or we'd see an Indian, which was of my color or darker sometimes. And sometime after school, just to tease me, they would call me that name they saw in school."Fast forward a decade, when Crable was once headed home from Atlanta for Army leave. As he left to return home, he recalled a moment he said was one of the most terrifying in his life."Next thing I know, a pickup truck was behind me and was just close enough to almost bump my car, high beams on, three guys sitting in the front seat," Crable said. "Three gun racks in the back of the truck, (they were) screaming names out of the car, 'Pull over! Pull over!'"This happened during a time when the civil rights movement in the '60s was in full swing.Many white Americans still didn't see Black Americans as equals, and so they took a stand against the inequality they faced.That same theme is playing out today during the Black Lives Matter movement. Lovingood asked Crable to compare the marches and protests during the civil rights movement to what he saw after George Floyd was killed in 2020."These protests that I see on television, versus what I've seen going on when I was coming up, there's just a world of difference. But these marches here, they start off scary," Crable said. "I mean, I don't know if I'd be involved in there from fear, not that I'm necessarily against what they do or protesting, but I would fear for my safety because I think it just gets so out of hand and, I think, a lot of people who are innocent and want to do right get hurt. I hope for more equality, and the main thing I hope for (is) more truthfulness and peace."