Summary: The big news came while Carlotta was attending school one day. Central High School was now ordered to be intergrated. Carlotta without thinking wrote her name down on the list of students that wanted to and qualified to attend Central. She didn't mention it to her parents. To her it was just any regular decision.
Her home was getting remodled and her father worked 3 jobs in order to give the family whatever they needed. Her father built many things and even the new master bedroom in there house. They gave Carlotta the present of keeping the room. They even bought a really nice television to now watch the latest news.
When she went to register day a lady sent her home with a card saying that they had to attend a meeting with the superintendent in order to be accepted with her parents. When she got outside Ms Bates, president of the Arkansas state conference, was waiting there. They soon attended the meeting and they went over the rules that no black boy can look at a white girl. School was about to start and that night Governor Faubus made a speech about how all should attend school the next day and there would be guards there to keep the peace. Then the next day they got an announcement that told them that there has been a delay on integration. A couple days later another announcement was made to go to school. The kids should meet a block away from school and they would get escorted to the school. When they got there, there was an angry mob and the guards wouldn't let them into the school because of Faubus' orders.
They stayed out of school for a while. Then they went to court where the attourney Marshall won the case for them. Now they would just have to wait and see what would happen when they did go to school.
Quote: "nigger ....nigger....nigger. It shot out of angry mouths like bullets and pierced my ears again and again." ( Lanier 70).
Reaction: The mob was very ferocious after seeing the black students walk towards the entrance of the school. You can just imagine the scene. She says it shot out like bullets which shows the amount of tension there could have been. She also said it pierced her ears which shows how strongly the words affected her.
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