POL114H5 Lecture Notes - Little Rock Nine
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Melba is one of the little rock nine (i. e. , the first black students in the united states to attend a previously all-white high school) She fights racism in its many forms throughout her life. Quickly learns that she will not have a normal high school experience knowledge that she has fought on the right side, and that she has, according to grandma india, fought. Has a single purpose: to survive to the end of the year, and to prove to the segregationists that she can"t be beaten. When people slap her or spit on her, she learns to say thank you and not fight back replaced her innocence with a sense of purpose. Her experience at central, the adult melba finds she can"t back away from a fight. Grandma india acts as melba"s steely backbone during her struggle to integrate central high school. Melba considers abandoning the struggle, grandma india encourages her to persist.
