A Mighty Long Way Essay

A mighty long way essay In the book a Mighty long Way it tells the story about a girl named Carlotta and her peers starting an all white school. When they first started they got picked on and they got yelled at and hit with spitballs. During this book we learned about the segregation and there journey about how Carlotta and her peers made it through the change. In the book Carlotta went through some hard times when she first started the school she had to be escorted in for almost 2 years because the students didn’t think it was right for them to go to the all white school. In this essay I am going to give you information about some pictures in the book. In the book “A Mighty Long Way”, Carlotta was starting a new school and when she started she and her peers were getting picked on by alls the white students. Carlotta and her peers were called meaningful rude names, Hit with spitballs, and pushed around in the halls. In “Little Rock Girl 1957”, by Tougas, Shelley a photo book about the little rock school. On page 6 in this …show more content…
It also talks about how it says that they told them they cant do something or anything and it tells the story about how they know the change is going to come. The song it by Sam Cooke- A Change is Gonna Come, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ3aDrn7P4M&index=52&list=PLdwXsh0WdkI3wI8PyhLl4OuYl2i0T04tO. I choices this song because in the book Carlotta got to attend an all white school and that is a part of the change in this time of history and how they were going to overcome it and work as a team and make sure that they were safe at the school. When she joined the new school she was scared but she new the changed was going to come and that they would find a way to overcome that. This is why I chose this song is because that it relates to the book some much and tells a store that the book did