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Author Message   Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 2146 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 04:39 pm:        This is a quote from Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the "Little Rock 9." I know I post a lot of these NPR pieces. But if you can only listen to one of them, make it this one: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11912932&ampsourceCode=RSS One of the "Little Rock Nine" students says after she signed up to go to Central High School, she skipped home unaware of what was to come. She said her innocent belief that if the white students got to know her everything would work out were shattered the day the soldiers stopped her from entering the school. The former Little Rock student talks to Alex Chadwick.   Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 9268 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 (Vote!) Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007 - 12:17 pm:        This woman's angst is so gripping that it comes through the computer as she recalls what happened 50 years ago. Back in the 1950s, "colored folk" used to paraphrase the "land of the free and home of the brave" verse from the national anthem, and instead referred to America as the "land of the free white man and home of the brave black nigga." And so it went.