Here come the Navy yard men. I hope I don't have to give up my seat.
MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT
She better not sit in the front
HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL
Why is he so mean to me
Lazy, Stupid Negros
I hate school
We need equality
Septima ClarkTaught in the segregated South and fired prior to the Brown decisionIt was unjust to rule that no city or state employee could belong to the NAACP
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
No nigger***is going to get in our school!
We need unanimous decision. The full court should be behind such a dramatic order
Segregated public schools are not equal and cannot be made equal and that hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the law
Bus drivers had beaten 15-year olds who sat up to the front or refused to get up from their seats and give it to whites coming in
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Negros do not make their kids learnJust didn't think that Negros could learn at the same rate as white children
BOSTON SCHOOL CLASSROOM
When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was great deal of hope in the air-Kozol
I love this poem
Ruled in 1954 that racial segregation in pubic schools was unconstitutional
WHITE CLASSROOM
So confused!
Not sure what is going on out there?
They glared at me with mean look and I was frighten -Elizabeth Eckford
Get her!
Will the troops protect me from this mob of white citizens?
Nigger
Lynch her!
Jonathan KozolComplaint from a white police officer carries more weight in the Boston school system than the complaint of the mother of a Negro child.
I'm going to memorize this poem
The art and reading teachers as well as the older teachers went on teaching and talking and grading as if in total oblivion of the turmoil breaking all around