“I remember it well, the morning when we opened the big gates to Central High School and went in as the first black students in a formerly all-white school,” Gloria continues almost dreamily. “After two hours, an anxious teacher came into our classroom and said that a mob had formed around the school. We were all terrified, hearing the chants from the mob surrounding the building. ‘Race integration is Communism,’ ‘go home niggers,’ ‘no niggers in our schools.’ They even hung black dolls from the big trees outside the school.”
