While reading the essay I found the way that the girl made her decision to change schools her senior year and attend the all white one, and I also found the decision itself a little suprising, although it wasn't at all unexpected. "Although Momma said I didn't have to do it if I didn't want to, I could tell she wanted me to agree. Terrible images flashed through my adolescent mind: of Emmet Till being killed for saying something to a white woman; of Rosa Parks going to jail rather than give up her seat to a white man; of all those elderly black folks walking miles to their jobs in Montgomery; of Autherine Lucy at the University of Alabama. I swallowed hard and told her that I would. Since the age of eight, I had been 'in it'; I knew that I was expected to do my part." When reading that it almost seems as if she was peer pressured into doing it; what is also very interesting, to me at least, is that if you used a child like that, and put a child into potential danger to help your cause, in any other circumstances would be considered unethical and would anger most people.