Rich dad

teachers say she isn't smart at all

Saved Melba from getting sexually assulted

-Grandma India: loves to bake and cook, used to be a maid. Very close with Melba

-Father/Howell

-brother/Conrad

Other Chapters

-Auntie Mae: happy, pretty hair, mom's sister

-Great Uncle Clancy: Lives in Ohio, shows Melba that not everyone cares about her skin color

-Uncle Charlie: Moms brother

-almost died when she was a baby because of a fever. the nurse didn't give her salts because she was black

-Bomb threats

-Missed the first day of school because of segregation

-People came from states away to see the black kids go into a white school

Pg 35- Rude crowds, yelling random hurtful words

Pg 36- Elizabeth wasn´t allowed inside

Pg 38- Chased by 4 white men

Pg 39- Scared they were gonna die, circled the neighborhood so they would catch her. She didn´t have her license but was forced to drive

Pg 41- Told to keep the whole scenario a secret

Pg 42- Melba is not a quitter

Pg 44- Upset she can´t go to the community center

Pg 45- Vince called, said he was going to ¨get her¨

Pg 46- Grandma kept watch again

Pg 48- Newspaper title, potential suspension on going to school

Pg 50- Wrestling matches were important to her, they go to an auditorium that is only for white people

Pg 51- She is forced to stay home

Pg 52- Vince asked her out

Pg 53- Getting prayed for

Pg 54- Getting tutored because they were falling behind in school

Pg 55- Lawyer came to visit and help them in court

Pg 56- Interviewed

Pg 58- Interviewers treat her equally

Pg 59- Overwhelmed at home, can't focus on schoolwork

Pg 60- Date with Vince, waiting until after the court hearing

Pg 62- Many mixed emotions from people

Pg 63- Most of the people in the courtroom were black. Some racist white ladies sat behind her, but she got distracted by soldiers.

Pg 64- Thelma's heart condition was showing in the courtroom. Judge had "huge eyes"

Pg 65- Need 3 judges present

Pg 66- No restaurants will serve them for their lunch break

Pg 66- The threat of violence was not sufficient enough for troops to be called

Pg 67- No one knew about Thelma's heart condition

Pg 68- Case ordered to continue with integration

Pg 90- First time eating in front of the TV

Pg 91- The governor got caught lying

Pg 91- "What is happening to America?"

Pg 91- "'I can help you figure this one out Mr. Faubus,' Mother Lois shouted at the screen. 'The president called your bluff'" (Beals 91)

Pg 92- White men in black hats was ringing their doorbell in the middle of the night

92- The men are here to give a message from the President

Pg 93- Well-kept shoes are the marks of a disciplined individual

Pg 93- Quiet and eerie vibe over the crowd

Pg 94- Adults crying

Pg 95- Lots of military power

Pg 96- Soldiers walked away

Pg 96- The soldier said his name was Danny

pg 98- Teacher won't stand up for Melba

Pg 98- Mean writings on bathroom mirror

Pg 100- met some nice white girls

Pg 101- Rude boys that were bigger than Danny

Pg 102- Kid talking in French about he didn't want to become to tan and be mistaken for black

Pg 105- reporter asked if Melba wanted to be white

Pg 105 Melba quote

Pg 106- Reporters at her house

Pg 73- Thelma went pale and her lips turned blue due to the stress of all of the running. Had to stay in the office and wait for her parents

Pg 73- "You wanted integration... you got integration

Pg 74- A teacher spit on Melba and told her to go home

Pg 75- When students were shouting disrespectful things at Melba, the teacher sat in silence

Pg 77- Melba got attacked by girls during gym and twisted a girls ankle that was about to kick her

Pg 80- Two men discussed leaving someone behind to escape the mob

Pg 83- Melba and others had to leave the school but their car was being attacked and chased down

Pg 107- Girl walked on Melbas heels and spat on her

Pg 108- ran into a group of boys and they both kicked her. Once in the shin and then the stomach

Pg 108- The soldiers didn't count as adults when the attack was reported

Pg 109- Fixed her posture to made it seem like she was confident

Pg 109- Less soldiers, so more yelling and chanting

Pg 110- Football game that night, so the football field is hazardous

Pg 111- Flaming stick of dynamite barley missed Melba when she was on the stairs

Pg 111- She has to go to her first pep rally

Pg 112- A few football players came and pinned her against the wall, knocking her books down and choking her

Pg 113- She realised she needed to learn how to protect herself

Pg 113- "Integration is a much bigger word than I thought"

- No talking about central

• Acts like her normal self

• Buys a new dress

• Vince invited her on a date (church then lunch)

• Vince gives her a dozen red roses

• 101st airborne wasn't removed on Monday, but on Tuesday they weren't allowed to be with the kids

• Taunted/threats r made after the 101st airborne left

• Gets bottle cap openers thrown at her, getting walked on by her heels, and they threw fire lit paper at Melba when in a bathroom stall, she throws a book back at the girls

• students were going to protest

• some students burn a straw figure and say the negros are next

• danny broke the rules and stayed towards Melba

• someone threw acid at melba's face

• she has to wear glasses 24/7 and has to see the eye doctor once a week. also has to wear eyepatched for 24 hours

Pg. 152- Christmas season is grandma's favorite

Pg. 152-Christmas party

Pg. 153- She was going to let Conrad use her stereo twice a day for a month

Pg. 154- Big new TV set

Pg. 155- Dad has a new girlfriend, so she wants a new stepdad for her mom

Pg. 155- No talking about central

Pg. 156- Decided to live with Mutt and Jeff watching them

Pg. 158- Dropped out of French class and is worried about English

Pg. 158- White Citizens Council is paying people to get the negros to misbehave and get themselves expelled

Pg. 158- Minnijean is coming back on January 13th. A bucket of soup was poured on her once she got back

Pg. 159- More meetings with the NAACP

Pg. 159- Lots of her diary enteries were "I wish I were dead"

Pg. 160- Grandma said "good idea" when being told that Melba wishes she was dead

Pg. 162- Vince is coming over a lot more, praying for Minnijean

Pg. 163- Minnijean getting attacked, left school without suspention, then got one in an envelope

Pg. 163- Before 8:40 a.m., she already got eggs dropped on her head

PG 164 GRANDMA INDIA QUOTE

Pg. 165- Told to "change the rules" and say thank you instead of being upset

Pg. 166- Snowballs with rocks, National Gaurd did nothing

Pg. 166- Minnijean got expelled, moving to NY

Pg. 169- Getting bullied badly by Andy

MELBA QUOTE PG 170

Pg. 170- Felt numb

Pg. 171- White kid (Link) helping her escape Andy and his friends

Pg. 176- Planning to meet by the ice cream shop, also found out Andy was going to kill her

Pg. 177- Link is being very nice to her

Pg. 177- Bibles with names engraved

Pg. 178- Had to get books replaced during lunch, her friends were gone by the time she got there

Pg. 179- Link sitting with Andy's group

Pg. 180- Getting things thrown at her during lunch

Pg. 181- Killing them with kindness

Pg. 184- Link shared the boy's plan, Mother Lois and Grandma where skeptical

Pg. 185- Link was right and segregationists are trying to get Melba out before the end of the school year

Pg. 186- Link felt torn between family and friends and then guilt

Pg. 187- Grandma goes through her trunks and they find heirlooms and such. Melba wants to dress older

Pg. 189- Melba doesn't want to give up anything that important, and Granda is upset

Pg. 190- The senior events were canceled because they didn't want integration to happen at them

Pg. 191- Link doesn't believe in God

Pg. 192- People were also going to hurt Melba's family. They would hold out pamphlet,s and with the other hand they were pour smelly liquids all over them

Pg. 193- Judge Harry Lemley is going to postpone more integration in other schools

Pg. 196- Mrs. Huckaby isn't standing up for the kids anymore

Pg. 197- Link begged Melba to meet up, drove to Nana Healy's house

Pg. 199- Nana Healy had an old, broken-down house; turns out she is dying

Pg. 202- Grandma found out about Nana Healy and began to help her

Pg. 203- Mother Lois got fired and can only get her job back if Melba was withdrawn from school

Pg. 207- Melba was sad she wasn't apart of her old friend group from her old school

Pg. 207- They printed her mom's story on the newspaper

Pg. 208- Melba getting taunted for her mom losing her job

Pg. 209- Was assigned a personal body guard for the first time in 4 months

Pg. 210- Mother got her job back

Pg. 211- The bodyguard is only doing his job because he has to, not because its right

Pg. 213- The last day of school was very underwhelming

Pg. 214- Wrote down the names of people she didn't like and burned them

Pg. 214- Not allowed to go to graduation

Pg. 215- felt selfish for wanting to go because she didn't want to take the guard's attention away from Ernie, then prayed that Ernie would walk the stage safely

Pg. 216- No one clapped for Ernie when he walked the stage

Pg. 217- Link cried because Nana Healy died on his graduation day and didn't want Melba to leave him and to come to college with him

Pg. 217- Flew everywhere, and it was like being a celebrity

Pg. 218- All Little Rock high schools closed

Pg. 219- Grandma died of leukemia on October 24th

Pg. 220- Carlotta Walls and Jefferson Thomas were the only other black students to graduate

Pg. 220- Attended San Fransisco State University

Pg. 221- Married a guy named John 6 months after their first date, then later on got divorced 7 years later because she didn't have what he wanted