better than that and hazel knew that all of these years she had been working -- working for racial amieliation. but she couldn't convince other people -- she couldn't convince other people of that. and then there was the flak that she took in the white community. for abroprobation she got there were a lot of people who felt that hazel was a great embarrassment to the white community. that she had become the symbol of white little rock. that all of the good kids at central high school had been tarred by her brush. and the world had come to think that everybody at central high school was like hazel that year. in fact, hazel hadn't even been in central that year. her parents pulled her out within a week of the time the picture was taken, and she wasn't even a student at that part of the year. they wanted hazel to go away and they found hazel to be an embarrassment and so hazel found she was getting flak from that community as well. and there's a story in the book about hazel going to one of her class reunions. it's absolutely striking to me that somebody in hazel's position would have the serve a