Meeting Dr. Sybil Hampton today was definitely a pivotal moment on the trip for me. After hearing during the tour about how painful desegregation was for the Black students integrating Little Rock Central, it was amazing to see someone so hopeful and strong who came out of that traumatic experience. I feel like I understand better, now, what school integration really was. It used to feel very abstract and distant to me; now, I see how it came down to individual children choosing to sacrifice (but also to do that which Dr. Hampton implored us to do: loving themselves enough to know they deserved equality).
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