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Kids Who Fought for Change
What did these kids do to fight for change? What were they upset about? What would you do to make a difference?
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In the article Kids fought change , is was about this little girl and her friends were trying to order food and

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In the article Kids who fought change, was about how a little girl named Ayanna Najumaand her friends were at a resteraunt and they wanted to get served but the people that were working there did not serve them Ayanna and her friends because they were colered and there was people pushing them throwing milk on them but Ayanna and her friens sat on that stool and did not move after that they realized that they were standding up to injustice and they wanted to end seregation and then after all that some year 1946 president Lyndon b. johnson signied the civil rigths act the law made segregation illgal.
If i were in those sitiation i would do the same that Ayanna and her friends were doing because you have to stand up and will begoing on forever and nobody will ever stop what is going on and it will just get worse ever time it happens.
Sit-in means that your not going to move even if people tell you to and mabe you will still sit-in untill the nigth.
What stood out to me was that Ayanna and her friends would not get off the stools even when they throw milk on her and her friends and pushed them around but they still would sit there waiting to be served.

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in the article black people try to order food but server did not serv them the white people throw food at the black people

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After reading the article. I think that Aynna Najuma and her fends mad a big differences.  About white people not eating with black people . Now they can also can get along with each other .they mad our future a good one fore everyone.

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After reading the article of  Kids Who Fought For Change. what stood out to me was sixty years ago, a group of kids helped end segregation in Oklahoma City.On August 1958, 7-year-old Ayanna Najuma and her friends walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They sat down at the lunch counter and tried to order food, but the waitresses ignored them. The kids sat there for hours. No  one would wait on Ayanna and her friends for one reason: They were African-American. This was one of so many restaurants in the South that refused to serve black people at the time. I understand that on the first day of the sit-in, Ayanna and the other kids sat at the lunch counter peaceful and respectful until the restaurant closed for the night. No one ever took their order. So the kids went back the next day. That’s when the situation grew tense. Some white customers yelled at the kids, and others threw ketchup on them. Through it all, the kids remained peaceful and polite.During the third day of their sit-in, the kids got good news. The owners of the store agreed to start serving black customers at the lunch counter. “It was a big deal,” Ayanna remembers. “It was a slam dunk to be able to sit there and have a hamburger and Coke.”

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After reading the article "Kids Who Fought For Change'' I learned that on August day in 1958, 7-year-old Ayanna Najuma and her friends walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City. They sat down at the lunch counter and tried to order food, but the waitresses ignored them. The kids sat there for hours. No one would wait on Ayanna and her friends for one reason: They were African-American. This was one of many restaurants in the South that refused to serve black people at the time. I think that it was the right thing for the kids to stay there and try to order there food because I think that most kids would just be tired of waiting there and would gone home. I strongly agree with the fact that Ayanna and the 12 other kids knew they wouldn’t be served. But they actually weren’t there to eat. They were there to stand up against injustice(unfair treatment). Because I think that those kids did the right thing that they stood up against justice because that is rude that the white people treated the African American people like that

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After reading the article "Kids who fought for a change" I learned that back then (1950-1960) that even kids had to help change the world of racism and segregation. African American, Ayanna Najuma is a good example of how it was back then because she lived back then and is still alive and did a sit in with some other kids when she was 7 years old. A sit in is where group of kids or adults but mostly kids that were African American, sat at a counter at a white people only store or restaurant and just wait in'till they got served, of course they didn't get served because they were African American and instead they got treated horribly with the workers and customers throwing all sorts of stuff in'till they would have enough and severe the kids but the kids didn't want to be severed they waited and got pushed around for justice and stood against injustice. Ayanna Najuma was only 7 when she first sit in.

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After reading the article "Kids Who Fought For Change" I personally think that the kids back in the 1950's and 1960's really did fight for a change because they would protest in a different way by sitting on a stool at Katz Drug Store Lunch & not giving up their seat to a white person. All the black people were not happy and they were upset because the waitresses at Katz Drug Store Lunch weren't attending the black kids because they were black, white people were throwing all sorts of food on all the black kids just to make them leave but they wouldn't leave. Something I would do to make a difference is tell the waitresses to attend me because they would be getting money if they gave me food because we pay for our food when we are at restuarants or fast food place like Mcdonald's , In-n-out.

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what I got from the article was kids who fought for change. Was that the pelpin oaklahoma  arfican amercian were not treated the same as white people.  Ayanna went to a drug store in oaklahoma.  Ayanna and a group of friends and tryed ordering but the waitresses just because they were african american. The last time last time Ayanna orderd and waited for wasin 1964 cause president Lydon b. singed the civil rights act.  Ayanna said " Even though I was a little vocie was as important just as everyone else's vocie. " What it means is is can chage the world with your actions. If that was to happen to was I would sew them and take it to court cause that is not fair and that will show other stores that people can sew them for that.

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In the article Kids who fought for change Ayanna and her friends stayed at katz drug store for three days (sit in) until the owner let African Americans get served at the lunch counter. Ayanna and her friends did the sit up in many other restaurants and stores. What stood out to me was that kids my age where making a big difference. If I lived during that time I would want to be one of the kids who protested for equal rights, or sit in's.

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The article was about how black people would go to a restrant's

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After reading the artcle kid's who fought for change Ayanna and her friend's were going to a restaurantand they were there for hour's and no one came to give them water.They didn't move because they thinkthat they should get severbecuse

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From reading this article from scholastic News called  Kids Who Fought For A Change. About this 7 year old girl named Ayanna Najuma and her friends spent 3 days at Katz drug store at the lunch table because the waitresses didn't serve them any food or drinks because they were a whole different race they said to the people that were not white "You know you don't belong here"said the white people. The white people also threw milk at the African American people and the different race and were hitting them and doing violence on the African Americans and

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After reading the article Kids who fought for a change I learned that African Americans sat at tables, and never got served. Ayanna Najuma (a seven year old girl) and some friends went to a restaurant and they stayed there all night and never got served. What the protest was called was a "Sit In".What the protesters did was they walked into restaurants and just sit there. They would get food thrown at them and they still didn't leave. In tell that restaurant  started to serve African American people. Ayanna Najuma went to restaurants all over Oklahoma City Protesting in tell they served African American people. After that the president signed a civil rights order. What stood out to me was that A girl that small can Make a huge difference in the world.

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After reading the article I Think Ayanna Najuma had to be really strong to do this kind of thing.She is strong because she was willing to get food thrown at her getting yelled at and even getting dragged.I think nobody should witness what Ayanna witnessed because it's hard to do what she did plus she was only seven years old.But that didn't bring her down nothing did the only time she would get up from her seat and walk to the exit door is when the rules change.Her friends where little too they stayed through that tough time with her.After it was done and they changed the rules the would go to the next store to do the same thing and the the next and next and so on.They called it the (SIT IN) Then finally the president signed the civil rights act.

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Ayanna najuma did the sit-in because the waiters and waitresses would not serve Ayanna or her friends because they all were african american kids. She did the sit-in so she get the waiters and waitresses attention and so they can get the message. Another reason why i think she did the sit- in is because so she can get the workers attention so then the workers can see how Ayanna feels. She feels like she is not being treated equal and expecting what and how they want to be treated and that they aren't being treated equal. And after Ayanna and her friends was put in good word, the waiters and waitresses finally knew how they felt and finally understood that they were wrong.

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After reading the article of Kids Who Fought For Change I strongly believe that not serving people because they don't look like you or a different race does not give other people a right to abuse or hit them. I disagree with the fact of people saying they are better then other people, I believe all people are equal.

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From the information I got from the article I understood that in some time back black people in Oklahoma were not treated equally or fair because whenever they went to any restaurant in Oklahoma even if they were black kids they would not attend or even serve them no matter how long they stayed they would not serve them even if they were kids!! So they sat there for hours and, nothing. Also the black people knew now that in the North black people were treated equally than the white people were treated. After the 3rd day the black people recived good news, they were now going to serve and attend black people in any restaurant of Oklahoma. Ayanna Najuma was experiencing this crime when she was a little girl and has now retold the story to us kids.

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In the article Kids who fought for a change, I recapped about 12 kids who sat in a segregated restaurant and asked for a menu but they were being ignored by the waitresses. So the 12 kids decided to do a sit-in for 3 days so they can get justice for what they wanted. After 3 days they got their justice so than some of the restaurants started allowing blacks to come in to eat and

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After reading the article about Ayanna, I learned that in August 1958 a little 5 year old girl named Ayanna Najuma and some friends sat at a restaurant to protest for thee free freedom  to sit in a real restaurant not just out side or in there houses. They knew that they weren't going to get served and they knew that they were going to get pulled and yelled and that people were going to throw food at them and that people will poor drinks on there heads and they where prepared for that because if they didn't yell back or fight back they wont get what they wanted. If I was in that sichuation I wouldn't be able to sit in that in that restaurants for 20 minutes but they were there for 3 days and that surprised me because they were little Ayanna was 5 years old and at 5 years old I wouldn't protest I would at least protest at 10 or 9 years old.