Summary: Carlotta got home from Chicago and immediately started school-her last year at Central. She recieved a school ID card in the mail because now they wanted to kow who was going in and out of the school. One of her teachers she recieved didn't really like blacks, so whenever the white students did something, the teacher just turned around and looked the other way. She felt lonely and she began missing the way her life was when she still had attended Dunbar. She couldn't participate, in sports or anything. Labor Day weekend came. Carlotta was in her bedroom sleeping. The red, cityowned station wagon used by the fire chief, exploded. This led to flames in his driveway. minutes later a second explosion happened. The glass front of a building blewout. Minutes after that, there was a third explosion. Fire damaged the ground floor of an adminitrative office. There were sirens. Soon investigators found out that the suspects threw sticks of dinamite to cause the explosions. They got arrested. None of this was that shocking to Carlotta. Later she gets an explosion of her own on her house. Once again, it was dinamite sticks. Her father got accused of sending 2 black men to explode his house, so that he could get insurance money. The 2 black men are Herbert Monts and Maceo Binns. Carlotta knew Herbert ever since she was small. They were innocent. The authorities had no evidence. Carlotta feels guilty for all the problems. She is determined to keep going to Central. Court was in session. The jurors were all white. The 2 black men were found guilty and were arreseted. They got five years prison. The school year was ending and graduation was coming. Soon it came and she accomplished her goal of graduating.
Quote:" I had a driver's license" ( Lanier 166).
Reaction: She began driving when she was young and that is very young. She began around 12 or 13 years old.
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