People
End of First Year
Significant Events
Life After LRCHS
Signs of Progress
100

This person gives Melba advice and encourages her to keep going.

Grandma India

100

Melba becomes close friends with this person.

Link

100

How does Link help Melba escape the situation when Andy is trying to kill her?

He gives her his car.

100

True or False: Melba goes back to LRCHS for a second year.

False

100

This person was able to graduate from LRCHS.

Ernest Green

200

This person is Melba's body guard and teaches her to be a warrior.

Danny

200

This person continues to torture Melba.

Andy

200

This person get suspended for dumping chili on white boys.

Minnijean Brown

200

True or False: Melba gets married to Link.

False

200

When Melba returns to Little Rock 30 years later, what milestone does she mention about the mayor?

First black woman mayor.

300
This person suffers from a heart condition.

Thelma Mothershed

300

What causes Melba to finally start trusting Link?

Watching him with his Nana Healey.

300

This Supreme Court ruling stated that segregated schools were unconstitutional.

Brown v. Board

300

After graduating from college, what does Melba decide to do with her career?

She becomes a journalist for NBC News.

300

Who is the student that greets Melba and the others when they go back to LRCHS 30 years later? How is this person a stark contrast that what Melba and the others faced?

He is black, and he's student body president. The kids never would have been allowed to run for the position.

400

This is person is Melba's boyfriend while she is a student at LRCHS.

Vince

400

Why aren't Melba and the others allowed to attend the graduation ceremony?

The school thought it would be a safety issue.

400

Why was Minnijean expelled from school?

The boys from the chili dumped chili on her.

400

Why does Link stop talking to Melba?

Because she married a white man.

400
How was Mother Lois able to get her job back?

She took her story to the "white newspaper" and one reporter published her story. She also got the bishop to support her.

500

This person was caught in a mob on the first day of school.

Elizabeth Eckford

500

What does Link ask Melba to do after his graduation?

Run away with him to Harvard.

500

Why is Melba unable to go back to LRCHS for a second year?

The Governor shuts down all the schools.

500

This is the only member of the LR9 to remain in Little Rock.

Elizabeth Eckford

500

How had teachers and administrators changed toward the end of the first year of integration?

Some teachers started cracking down on students who misbehaved, and one girl was expelled for passing out flyers.

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