Five African-American graduates of Kansas State University tell their own stories of integration on campus and in the state during the 1950s and 60s. One recalls desegregating a public swimming pool in Kansas, another describes becoming the first Black family in a white neighborhood, and a third traces his path from being the first Black football player at Kansas State to a career with the Green Bay Packers. Their accounts converge on Martin Luther King Jr.'s visit to the university, and the video lets them describe both what that day meant and what changed on campus after his assassination not long after. The interviews are direct testimony, filmed conversation rather than reenactment, and the five subjects speak plainly about the daily mechanics of being first: the stares, the rules nobody wrote down, the friends who did or didn't show up. The video closes on a line one of them uses as a personal motto, treating it less as a slogan than as the practical philosophy that got him through.