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4 When you got to school that first day what did you encounter?

I discovered that things were going to be violent. I had never really been in a position where people came at me so violently. I had no idea that grownups could act up and misbehave like this. Sure, I had heard about these things. But as a child you don't really understand until they happen to you. These grownups were threatening to kill me. These grownups were coming at me with baseball bats and pieces of brick, they were walking up to me, slapping me, spitting on me. Well come on, now, this isn't the way grownups behave.
Melba Beals

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