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African American students, Biography, Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.), History, School integration, Afro-American students, 1000blackgirlbooks, Little rock (ark.), African americans, biography, Arkansas, biography, High schools, Central High School, Rassenintegration, nyt:race-and-civil-rights=2014-12-07, New York Times bestsellerPeople
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"IN 1957, WHILE MOST TEENAGE GIRLS WERE LISTENING TO BUDDY Holly's "Peggy Sue," watching Elvis gyrate, and collecting crinoline slips, I was escaping the hanging rope of a lynch mob, dodging lighted sticks of dynamite, and washing away burning acid sprayed into my eyes."
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