Thoughts on “How We Got Over” The class was given the assignment to write our thoughts or feelings about the first five pages of the book, “How We got Over”, which was written by Former Jackson State President, John A. Peeples. This book is a composition of some of his former speeches. The pages that we were assigned to read were his Jackson State’s graduating valedictorian speech. Initially, he started off his speech as a typical valedictorian would. He stated that trfthe four year journey that his classmates and he had made was over and now it was time for them to continue to grow into the world. He also calls for his fellow classmates to step up and become leaders instead of regressing backwards, because he felt that the world was at a
