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a little faster, careful upcoming year. The thought, ?they must
not to start running. integration was have done something
You can feel tears start successful despite the bad? or even things like
to stream down your daily threats they ?they deserved it?. The
face. You finally make it received, some Ku Klux Klan (KKK),
to school and sit down, physical. Since this police officers, and
trying to make the rest event, the school even commoners were
of the day seem system in Little Rock, a major threat to
normal. You talk to Arkansas has changed African American
your African American drastically. people. African
peers and teachers, American people
and that seems to calm couldn?t stand up for
Segregation in
you down. themselves without
the South being beaten, labeled,
Today, our schools Segregation was very or arrested. This
are so diverse. Kids of common in the south. segregation was no
all colors, People of color different in schools.
backgrounds, and couldn?t vote, drink out
more, come to school of the same water Separate, But
together, play fountain, use the same Equal
Whi t e or Bl ack: How t he school together, and work bathroom, or even eat The saying that people
syst em has changed
together. The year
in the same
since t he t ime of 1957 was very different restaurants as whites. often used was
?Separate, but equal?,
from what it is today.
When t her e?s no Kids of different races Many people thought however, this was not
segregat ion and how
this was unfair, but
it st ill lingers.
the case. They were
couldn?t eat in the
same places, grocery were too scared to separate, but not
stand up for
i n bet ween shop, play together, or themselves. If they did American kids often
equal. The African
even drink out of the
they would have the
same water fountain. It risk of being beat up, had the ?hand me
You spring out of bed, ready for they arrive, begin your walk to not to make direct eye contact or was no different for shunned, and police downs?, meaning they
the first day of school. You put on school. On you way you giggle, get in the white people?s way. They school, of course. In brutality wasn?t got the old books and
the cute outfit you picked out the laugh, and talk about how nervous look at you, disgusted, annoyed, 1957 nine African thought of police never had updates to
night before, brush your hair, your you are. However, this all stops and sickened by your presence. A American students brutality as it is now. If their schools. Schools
teeth, and run downstairs to eat when you reach the white part of highschool boy stands in front of were chosen to an African American were thought to be
breakfast. After breakfast, you wait town. You suddenly become more you and calls you a name, laughs, integrate an all white was harmed by the segregated forever, as
for your friends outside and when aware of your surroundings, careful then walks away. You start walking high school in the police people often many people wanted.
