My father (far right) and other Future Farmers of America meet Sweet Potato Man:

This was back in the day when the laws in some parts of America denied half-human/half-tubers the right to use the same public accommodations as white people. Cruelly enough, in some cases that didn’t matter to Sweet Potato Man. He couldn’t very well be forced to the back of the bus if he couldn’t get his big ugly potato head through the bus door in the first place.