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Paired: The Moton School Strike (w/ Memory Palace)

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What It Means to Be 15 and a Half or a Junior in High School

Barbara johns was a junior in high school. She saw just how bad her school was. It was, of course, worse than the white schools. So they put up a couple of tar paper shacks to accommodate the overflow. What it feels like to be half aware that you are becoming who you are going to be right then. There is so much that can happen.

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