Integration into Central High

  • Melba goes to Central High for her first day of class

  • Judge Davies rules that the Arkansas National Guard must be removed and that the Little Rock Nine must be allowed into Central High School

  • Melba goes to class for the first time only to be forced to leave because of an angry mob of white people

  • Melba is assigned her own bodyguard named Danny from the 101st Airborne

  • Minnijean is suspended after throwing hot chili on two white boys

  • Judge Davies is removed from the Little Rock integration lawsuits and replaced by an Arkansas judge named Harry Lemley

  • Melba finishes her first school year at Central High

  • Melba and fellow black students begin a tour of the northern states

  • Melba tries to enter Central High for second year

  • Melba moves to Santa Rosa to live with a white Quaker family after the NAACP says it will be too stressful on families to try and enroll in a second year

  • Melba attends San Francisco State University which predominantly consists of white students