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the book is based on Melba Pattillo Beals,diary during a time of forced integration of black children into white schools..
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first off, i was born on pearl harbor day, december 7, 1941.
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Brown Vs. Board of Education.
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was illegal. -
how could i ever forget may 17, 1954, the day the supreme court ruled in brown v.board of education of topeka, that separate public school for whites and blacks were illegal?
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Beals was 13 years old and chosen to go to Central High School, an all-white school in Little Rock, Ark.
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the newspapers said the little rock school board had adopted a plan to limit integration to central high school.
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Little Rock adopted a plan to limit integration
24 May 1955 -
i began to relize that grandma was right.
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NAACP filed to make schools integrate immediately
8 Feb 1956 -
the government of arkansas files a case in court to appeal for the suspension of integration in arkanasas schools. little rock nine does not get to go to central hs yet.
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little rock central high school is directed by the court to proceed with integration. the police are directed to keep peace. faubus is afraid that people may get hurt.
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1200 soldiers/ paratroopers from the mational army came to little rock to make sure that intgration proceeds. melda's parents are visited by the president's messagers to ecourge them to send melba to school.
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someone threw a lit stick of dynamite into the stairwell where melba and danny were. melba also attended a pep rally on this day and someone tried to choke her.
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haif of the soldiers of the 101st airbome left little rock.
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a boy ran up to melba with a small bottle and spray liquid over her face. it turned out to be acid. danny ran over to her and put her face over running water to wash it away. he saved her from blindness.
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101st Division sent back to Kentucky
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afetr thanksgiving, all of the soldiers leave and the LR9 lose their badyguards. national guart keeps peace.
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the superintendent warns minnijean that she should not react to anyone who taunts her.
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One of the nine black students expelled
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One of the nine black students expelled
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someone hit melba with a tennis racket from the back.
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The Daily Collegian, "Few Racial Incidents Marred Negro's History at University.
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hundreds of people, many of them white arkansans, gathered on the grounds of the arkansas state capital for the unveiling of statuesw of the nine of us.
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