Melba Pattil First Day

First Day of Central High

The first day that Melba Pattil was at Central High she had to be supported by the soldiers, because she wouldn’t have made it if the soldiers were not by her side. She was getting hit with things like acid and they were using bad language toward Melba as the soldiers were escorting her into the school.

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As she walked into the school, she was so scared. Once her classes started, she was not treated right because the student were mean to her. They called her names and she could not even walk the hallways in peace because they would push around and slap her books out of her hands. During this time there was racial segregation happening. She could not go to the bathroom peacefully