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"When I got to 10th grade at Booker T. Washington High, I had a teacher, Miss Geraldine Nesbitt. I th..." — Claudette Colvin

When I got to 10th grade at Booker T. Washington High, I had a teacher, Miss Geraldine Nesbitt. I think she came from New York. She helped me begin to question things.
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