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Me being born
I was born on December 7, 1941. Which also happens to be when Pearl Harbor happened. I was born into a black family and life was good all until one day we got a letter and then one day we got a letter in the mail that changed our lives. -
I didn't get the help I needed
When I was an infant I was born with a scalp infection. Since I was so little this almost killed me. My mom tried to take me to a hospital but the doctors and nurses wouldn't help me and my family because of our skin color. -
Brown VS Board of Education
In the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas It became illegal to have separate black and white schools. Which made my teacher at my old school very scared of me going to the white school and worried for my danger. She was worried because that means people wouldn't like that integration might not be illegal anymore. -
Limited Integration into Little Rock High school
Little Rock High school had a plan to limit the integration into their school so that people didn't get overwhelmed with all the new people that would be coming to the school. I thought it would be a miracle to be able to integrate into Little Rock high school. -
I realized integration was not going to be easy
People were figuratively and literally knocking down the fences of segregation. On the first day of school some angry moms broke down the fence that was trying to keep them out and they started chasing me. That was the most scared I had been in my life. Rosa Parks one day decided to not get up for a white person on the bus and then she got arrested. Then that started the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. -
Schools had to integrate right away
A couple months after the Rosa Parks incident the NAACP filed a suit in Federal District court that made schools have to integrate immediately. -
I got chased by angry mob of segregationists
On this day me and the other eight students tried to integrate into the school but there was a big angry mob of white people who didn't want us to get in so we had to be escorted in. Later that day I got chased by a group of angry moms because they didn't want their children to be around them. -
Petition dismissed by Judge Davis
A Mother's League petition to remove the federal troops who are there in violation of state and federal constitutions is dismissed by Judge Davies. Which in turn caused more people to get mad and take out their anger on me and the other black students that are attending the school right now. -
I got dynamite thrown at me and acid thrown in my eyes
One day when I was walking to class I was walking up the stairs to go to my class and there were angry students at the top of the stairs waiting for me. Then they threw a stick of dynamite at me and my bodyguard had to throw it away. A week or so later I got acid thrown in my eyes by another group of students. -
Minnijean expelled after accidentally dumping her food on someone else
On one particular day Minnijean was going to lunch. She ended up getting her lunch and then when she was trying to find a place to sit she accidentally spilled her food on another person. The other person thought she did this on purpose so they took her to court and she had a 40 minute hearing to hear if she did it on accident or not and that didn't work so then she got expelled.