Jacqueline Woodson - Brown girl dreaming (sterling high school, greenville) lyrics

sterling high school, greenville While my mother is away in New York City, a fire sweeps through her old high school during a senior dance. Smoke filled the crowded room and the music stopped and the students dancing stopped and the DJ told them to quickly leave the building. My mother said it was because the students had been marching, and the marching made some white people in Greenville mad. After the fire the students weren't allowed to go to the all-white high school. Instead they had to crowd in beside their younger sisters and brothers at the lower school. In the photos from my mother's high school yearbook— my mother is smiling beside her cousin Dorothy Ann and on her other side, there is Jesse Jackson, who maybe was already dreaming of one day being the first brown man to run for president. And not even the torching of their school could stop him or the marchers from changing the world. And not even the torching of their school could stop him or the marchers from changing the world. Woodson, Jacqueline (2014-08-28). Brown Girl Dreaming (Newbery Honor Book) (p. 111). Penguin Young Readers Group. Kindle Edition.