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The letters were intended to refresh their memory of my family (the Smiths), and to offer options of place, date, and time for person-to-person interviews. A week or so later, I followed up each letter with a phone call. Melba was of the impression that everything that needed to be said was in her book, Warriors Don’t Cry. ” Additionally, viewing the research as interloping, she strongly urged me never again to disturb the Quaker McCabe family in California, with whom she had lived since completing high school, and whom I had called three days prior to the telephone conversation with Melba.
This time, however, the old supremacist story flopped. Segregationists failed to pin the old moral stigma on black Americans . . white segregationists turned into the moral villains . . 2 Interpreting the contrasting descriptions of race relations in the Little Rock community renders a perspective more accurate and thorough than any single view, thereby accounting more holistically for the friction that gave way to the crisis. 3 Such frames of mind account for the translucent racially polarized city whose simmering cauldron reached the boiling point in the wake of the arsonist, Brown v.
Central High, besides being closer to their homes, offered a larger variety of courses, and was better equipped than Horace Mann High. However, after the very first day of facing a hate-filled mob of adults, out-of-towners, jeering fellow students, and the Arkansas National Guard who barred their entrance, they had to rethink their initial motivation. Once within the school building, a second motivational prod of commitment to racial parity cemented their persistence. Their return on September 23, after the horrifying September 4 experience, demanded of each a perceptual and cognitive appraisal of the situation, which led to their discovering various individual means to endure the “daily gauntlet of insults and punches .