The white people and the black people lived in separate worlds that seemed to intersect only when absolutely necessary. Of the eighty-eight thousand residents, sixty-six thousand were white, while twenty-two thousand were black. It brought with it many ground rules designed to imprison and control everyone who was not white. By age three, I realized the culture of this small town in the Deep South was such that the color of my skin framed the entire scope of my life. I sensed from the very first moment of consciousness that I was living in a place where I was not welcome. I didn’t know why exactly, but clouds of dread engulfed me every evening when day turned to night. THE FIRST THING I REMEMBER about being a person living in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1940s is the gut-wrenching fear in my heart and in my tummy that I was in danger. ICLE (International Center for Leadership in Education)Ĭustomer Service & Technical Support Portal Into Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, 8-12 Science & Engineering Leveled Readers, K-5
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