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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of which Melba Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The author describes the threats and emotional abuse she endured from white student and adults along with her fears of endangering her family as she commited to being one of the first African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.