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Segregation
Segregation occured between the whites and the blacks. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks got arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. -
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Nine goes to a white school. -
Martin Luther King Junior's Dream
Martin said his "I Have a Dream" speech. -
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One Crazy Summer
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Plane Ride
Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern fly to Oakland, California to meet their mother who had abandoned them when they were young. -
Black Panther Visit
Two of the black panthers visit Cecile asking her to write poems to put out awareness for equal righs for blacks. That's gets her involved with the panthers and later gets into quite some trouble. -
Children's Center for Breakfast and Camp
The three girls, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, were sent to the childrens center by Cecile because she didn't want to feed them and she told them to go to the summer camp there after breakfast because she didn' want to have them bothering her while she wrote her poetry. -
Let in the Kitchen
Cecile finally lets Delphine into her kitchen. The kitchen was Cecile's work space and wouldn't let anybody in it so it was suprising for Delphine when she was allowed in. -
Cecile Goes to Jail
The girls come back from their "adventure" and see Cecile and another black oanther being arrested and sent to jail. -
On an Adventure
The girls decided to go on an adventure. They went to the beach, shopping, and then rode a cable car. -
Living with the Woods
Since Cecile is in jail the girls have to live with the woods, a family to one of Delphine's good friends. -
Rally
A rally was help to get the town parks renamed after a black man who had been shot to honor him. -
Cecile is Free
Cecile gets out of jail after about two weeks. -
Back Home
The girls go back home to Brooklyn to live with Big Ma and Pa. -
Integration Ends
Integration began to end at this time and blacks and whites were to get along.
