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2.7.26 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radio Eyes Short Story Hour. As
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  a reminder, radiized a reading service intended for people her,
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  blind or of other disabilities that make it difficult to
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  read printed material. Today we will be reading from various
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  books about Black History Month famous African Americans. Your reader
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  today is Diane. We will begin with the first story,
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  Serena the Little Sister. It was first published by Page
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  Street Kids and imprinted Page Street Publishing Company. It has
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  a copyright year of twenty nineteen and the author of
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  the book is Carlin Gray. Serena stood in Arthur Ashe
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  Stadium and kissed the trophy. The crowd roared, Her parents
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  took pictures, her sisters cheered. Thirteen years earlier, four year
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  old Serena jumped out of the family band in Compton, California,
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  and followed her sisters, big sister Venus, Big big sister Lyndree,
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  big big sister Aisha, and big big big sister yet Tonde,
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  running past the playground and onto the public tennis courts.
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  The girls pushed a shopping cart full of balls and
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  carried rackets and brooms. Once claimed, the courts were ready
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  for the girls to practice. Look at the ball Serena,
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  her father coach to just swing, using an adult sized rocket.
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  Serena swung again and again. Her sisters cheered when Serena
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  hit the ball, and they chased the ones she missed.
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  Their father taught Serena and her sisters how to play tennis.
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  He read books and watched videos, received donated equipment from
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  tennis clubs, and made the sport of family activity. Because
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  the donut of balls were owed, many had lost their bounds,
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  but they used them anyway after their father explained that
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  it was good practice for Wimbledon, a Grand Slam tournament
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  where the balls bounced slower because the tins court was
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  made of grass, and on special days when they opened
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  a new can of balls, the girls couldn't wait to
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  smack them. Pop Pop Pop. At home, the girls made
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  up a box game called Grand Slam, named after the
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  foremost important tennis competitions in the world. Serena and her
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  sisters used their hands to hit a ball back and
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  fourth on sidewalk squares, pretending they were playing at the
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  US Open or the Australian Open. They wanted to play
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  the long courts of Wimbledon. They sprinkled grass on the
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  squares they wanted to play the clay courts of the
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  French Open. They scattered dirt. Serena loved winning their Grand
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  slams because well, Serena loved being the star. When Lynn
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  wrote plays for the girls to reform, Serena was always
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  playing the princess. When Tunday and Aisha experimented with new
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  fashion looks, Serena modeled their designs. And when they all
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  played card games, Serena declared herself the winner, even if
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  she didn't actually win. But Tunday, I, shall Lin and
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  Venus could never stay mad at Serena. There were circle
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  of sisters, their bond unbreakable. In the evenings, all five
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  sisters slept in one bedroom with two sets of bunk beds.
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  Ice and Tundai were on the top beds, Win and
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  Venus on the bottom beds, and little Serena would go
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  in with a different sister each night. Over the years,
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  their dead put up inspirational signs around the tennis court.
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  They were never allowed to use the word can't, and
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  their mom often told them whatever you become, you become
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  in your head first, So the girls streamed of what
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  they could become. Tunday and Nurse I shall lawyer, Lynn
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  A singer, and Venus and Serena number one tennis players
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  and all the sisters like tennis. But Venus hit harder,
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  ran faster, and won. Reporters, coaches, and famous tennis players
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  started to notice, especially when they saw her earth about
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  one hundred miles per hour. Daddy, Serena pleaded, give me
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  a chance. I want to play in tournaments like the
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  not yet, her father said, You're not ready. But one day,
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  eight year old Serena got an idea. While playing office
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  with her sisters. As they pretended to answer phones and
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  shuffle papers, Serena spot an application for one of Venus's tournaments.
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  Serena quietly filled it out and meld it. At the event,
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  the girls parents watched Venus compete on one court while
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  Serena sneaked off to another, and Serena played her first match.
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  Her playing was simple, exhausted her opponent by running her
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  all over the court. Her strategy worked and Serena won
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  the match. Then her father appeared at the back of
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  the crowd. Serena prepared herself for punishment. Instead of being angry,
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  her dad exclaimed, look at you, you won. You played great.
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  Then he started coaching her on how to play for
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  her next opponent. You really think I can beat her,
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  Serena asked. Her dad assured her, you can do anything.
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  Serena won aur matches, moving up and up until she
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  faced her big sister in the final match. The changeover,
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  Serena whispered, Venus, let me win a game. Ten year
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  old Venus ignored Serena and easily won the gold trophy.
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  Although Serena left with silver, she kept eyeing that goat.
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  You know what, Venus fasked, I've always liked silver better
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  than God. You want to trade? Serena cherish that trophy.
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  She always wanted to be like our sisters, especially Venus.
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  If Venus went somewhere, Serena followed the eight and restaurant.
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  Serena ordered the same meal as Venus, and after a
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  Venus told a reporter I want to win Wimbledon, Serena
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  said the exact same thing, I want to win Wimbledon.
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  Her father told her, you're your own person, Serena, you
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  don't have to do everything Venus does. The next time
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  a reporter as Serena said, I want to win the
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  US Open, But she still loved to copy Venus. Other people, however,
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  didn't think Serena was as talented as her sister. One
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  newspaper article claimed Serena would never be as successful as
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  Venus because younger siblings never go very far in sports.
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  Sunday took Serena side. Don't pay any attention to that article. Serena,
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  You'll have your day and it's gonna be even bigger.
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  Serena kept those words close to her heart for a
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  few years of tournaments. William's family moved to Florida, where
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  I shall lend. Venus and Serena attended a tennis academy
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  Tunday State in California to go to nursing school. The
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  sisters didn't like being separated, but their new life in
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  Florida kept them busy with schoolwork and plenty of tennis. Here.
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  The girls didn't sweep the courts. There were brand new
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  brackets and unopened cans of balls. Many kids more and
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  more stylish tennis outfits, but none wore beaded braids like
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  Serena and her sisters. The girls from Compton stood out
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  on those courts, but so did their powerful strokes pock
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  pock pop. When Serena turned fourteen, she was allowed to
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  play in professional tournaments, events where the prizes were big checks,
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  and in her first match Venus one. A year and
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  a half later, Serena turned pro at fourteen, like Venus,
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  but unlike Venus, Serena lost. So Venus and Serena started
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  playing as doubles team. Playing with her sister, Serena felt stronger.
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  Their model was if you can't do it for you
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  do it for me. By the time she turned sixteen,
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  Serena had grown taller and more confident. She was ready
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  to play on her own and in her own style.
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  Serena wasn't as strong or as fast as Venus, so
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  she angled her shots to win. After she fell off
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  her skateboard one day, it hurt her wrist too much
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  to hit a backhand. Instead, Serena ran around the ball
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  and hit her forehand at hard. Serena and Venus traveled
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  the world, competing as doubles team and against each other.
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  Whenever Serena and Venus played against each other in Grand slams,
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  the press called it a sister slam, but for the sisters,
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  every slam ended with a hug. Now the nineteen ninety
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  nine French Open doubles competition, seventeen year old Serena and
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  eighteen year old Venus won their first Grand Slam twogether.
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  Before Serena's eighteenth birthday, she and Venus competed in the
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  US Open. The tournament Serena dreamed of winning. Her big
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  sister Venus was a favorite to win, but to the
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  crowd's surprise, Venus lost. It was Serena who won match
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  after match after match. When she reached the finals, she
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  faced the player who had knocked Venus out of the tournament.
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  Now she's playing for two people, Venus said as she
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  watched from the stands above. This was the moment Serena
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  had been trained for since she was a little girl
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  in Compton. I gotta go for it, Serena told her so,
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  Pop Pop pop. She smashed eight aces serves that her
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  opponent couldn't even touch, and her fierce forehand earned her
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  point after point. In the end, Serena won the tournament
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  and became the first black woman to win a Grand
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  Slam singles tournament in more than forty years. Tandai had
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  been right, You'll have your day and it's going to
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  be even bigger. The word ceremony, Serena looked up at
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  her family. I would like to also thank my dad,
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  my mom, she said, and all my sisters for all
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  their support. Serena held the trophy up high as the
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  loudspeaker boomed, ladies and gentlemen, the nineteen ninety nine US
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  Open Woman Single champion Serena Williams. The crowd roared for
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  tok first flash photos one of the many headlines of
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  Day Red Little Sister, Big Hit. Our next book is
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  titled Me and Mohammed Ali, and it was published by
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  nian Paulson Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. It
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  has a copyright year of twenty twenty two and the
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  author is Jabbari Awesome. Langston noticed something different in his neighborhood,
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  a new flyer announcing that the great boxing champion Muhammad
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  Ali was coming to town. The flyer was in front
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  of a large mural called the Wall of Respect that
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  Langston's dead had helped paint. The wall featured the faces
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  of many black heroes, including Langston's favorite Muhammad Ali, and
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  now the real Muhammad Ali, the champion of the whole world,
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  would actually be here. Like most folks, Langston looked up
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  to the champ because of his strength, speed, and confidence,
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  but Lanston loved him just as much for his poetry.
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  He was thrilled when Ali promised to float like a
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  butterfly and sting like a bee. He was delighted whenever
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  Ali boasted I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with a well.
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  I done hand cupped lightning and throwing under in jail
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  at Resist, the kids were inspired to make up their
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  own rhymes. As they gathered on the playground. Lanston called
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  up all the confidence he had belted out his rhyme,
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  I'm smart as a fox and fast as a hound.
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  I can sneak up on you without making a sound.
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  Langston had been counting the days to Ali's arrival, and
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  finally the day was here. Every when's talking about the champ,
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  his dad said. Looking at Ali's photo on the newspaper,
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  Langston's mom was just as excited. She liked that Ali
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  was fighting to make the world a better place for everyone.
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  He's never afraid to tell the truth, she said. Langston
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  wanted to be just like that when he grew up.
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  After breakfast, Lanston went to the barber shop and got
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  his afro shaped to look just like the champs. He
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  laughed while the old men swapped stories of their younger days.
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  Mister Sutton, the barber, had even been an athlete himself.
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  On the wall was a picture of mister Sutton receiving
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  a gold medal. He stood in a box with a
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  garland of leaves around on his head, near portraits of Jersey, Joe,
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  Walcat Walcott, Henry Armstrong, other champions mister Sutton had known,
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  admired Allie Combines, the best of them all. Mister Sutton
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  Toon Lanston. I was there when he took the crown
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  from Sonny Liston in sixty four fastest hands I've ever seen.
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  Everyone laughed as mister Sutton and Lanston pretended to trade punches.
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  It's Lanston and his mom left for the high school.
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  Mister Sutton yelled out, take the greatest, I said, tell
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  the greatest. I said, hello, I sure, bro Ill Lanston promised.
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  Then Lanston practically floated like a butterfly down the street,
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  dreaming of his hero. If the high school guard stopped them,
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  I'm sorry, he said, this is vent is for students only.
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  But we're neighbors. Lanston mom said, we live around the corner,
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  won't you please let us in. Sorry, ma'am, the guard replied, Wait,
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  Langston said, you got to let us in. We've been
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  counting the days. I even got my afro trimmed. Please.
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  The guard shook his head. Then a voice boomed, what's
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  the problem here. Lanston looked up and could not believe
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  his eyes. It was Moham and Ali, the world champion himself.
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  When the champ heard about their problem, he put his
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  arms around Lanston and his mom and told the guard,
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  don't worry, They're with me. Lanston could hardly believe their luck.
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  They all went together while reporters shouted questions and flashed
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  bulbs popped. Langston felt joyous and proud. Like Alie's strutting
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  in the ring. The next morning, Lanston could still fill
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  the Champ's energy rip, wrapping him in his warm glow.
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  His hero's face beamed at him as he walked by
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  the wall of respect. He was already thinking of recess
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  when he would tell everyone about meeting the champ. Then
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  he would chance some rhymes loud enough for the whole
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  playground to hear. I'm quick and I'm strong, I'm black
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  and i'm free, I'm brave and i'm bold like Mohammad Ali.
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  Our next book is titled Debt Coven I Want Freedom Now,
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  and it was published by Ferrara Strauss, Jurouk's Books for
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  Young Readers and imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group. It has
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  a copywriter of twenty twenty four and the author is
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  Claudet Covin and Philip Hughes. I've always asked big questions,
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  why don't stars fall from the sky? Where's Japan? But
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  when I was a young girl, my biggest question was
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  why do white people think they're better than me? Signs
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  across Montgomery, Alabama, where I lived, tell me where I
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  could and couldn't go restrooms, stores, drinking fountains, and restaurants.
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  When I needed shoes, Mom had to trace my foot
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  into a grocery bag and carry the tracing too the
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  store because whites didn't want our feet in their shoes.
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  I couldn't try on dresses either. I could watch white
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  people eating lunch counters downtown, but I couldn't sit and eat.
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  The worst was the bus. It was like a sowre
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  tooth that never quit aching. White sat in the front,
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  Black sat in the back. Even if there were empty seas.
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  I had to stand up and move back. The white
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  passenger won in my seat. I hated it. Grown upset, Claudette,
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  this is just how things are. It made me angrier.
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  I want to change, but what could I do. We've
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  been studying black history in school. My teachers were proud
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  to be black. They tose about great civilizations in African history.
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  Little by little they gave me a go to liberate
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  my people. One day, when I was fifteen, I boarded
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  the bus home from school A day dreamed in an
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  empty row. As the bus filled, Suddenly I realized a
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  white passenger won in my seat. She was angry, get up, gal.
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  The white bus driver was youlled. But this time I didn't.
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  As the driver kept shouting at me, I felt the
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  weight of strong black women pressing down on me. Sojourner
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  Truth on one shoulder, Harriet Tubman on the other. History
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  kept me glued to my seat. Soon two police officers
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  came storming down the aisle, but I didn't move. I shouted,
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  it's my constitutional right to sit here. My struggle for
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  freedom was about to start on this bus. The officers
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  yanked me from my seat. My school books went flying.
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  I was handcuffed, shoved into a police car and locked
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  in a jail, sailed downtown. The click of the lock
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  was terrifying. There was nothing besides the toilet and a cot.
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  I sank to my knees sobbing. I was all alone.
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  Didn't my parents even know where I was? When my
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  protests make any difference? I prayed every prayer I knew.
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  Later that night, my mom and my pastor came to
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  get me out. Mom didn't say much, but I could
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  tell she supported me. My pastor on the other and
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  could not stop talking. I'm so proud of you, clauled dead.
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  He said. Everyone prays for freedom. You're different. You want
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  freedom now. The next day at school, everyone was laughing
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  at me. Kids held their noses when I passed in
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  the hallway, saying mockingly, it's my constitutional right. That made
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  me furious. Why was I being teased for doing what
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  was right? But I had bigger problems. The police had
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  fell charges against me. They even said I had tied
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  to police officer. I could have just paid a fine,
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  but I wanted to fight in court. So Montgomery's black
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  leaders hired a young lawyer named Fred Gray to defend me.
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  They held bake sales and beauty contests to raise the
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  money to pay him, and all Montgomery's white churches pitched in.
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  I liked for it. He was prepared to win. But
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  when the day if my case came, it was over
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  in a flash. The white judge barely looked up guilty
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  on three charges. He ruled I could live at home,
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  but if I got in more trouble, Ivy sent away
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  my spirits sank. I had tried to fight for freedom,
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  and look where it got me Nowhere. I couldn't go
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  anywhere except Sunday school for fear of getting in trouble.
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  I was angry and worn out. Didn't anyone else care?
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  We were being treated unfairly. I didn't know it then,
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  but my story inspired other people. Nine months after my protest,
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  a woman named Rosa Parks bravely kept her bus seat
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  in order to move. She was arrested too, and released
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  from a so after a few hours, word of park
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  parks arrest crackled around town. She was a celebrity. I
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  felt like a nobody. They didn't even spell the name right.
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  I tried not to be jealous. At least I got
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  things started. I thought Black people decided to boycott the buses,
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  not ride them until we were treated better. We built
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  our own system for getting people around. It felt good
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  to see empty buses rumble through the city like green
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  and yellow ghosts. The boycott dragged on from but the
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  bus company wouldn't change its ways. We needed something new.
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  Fred Gray, my lawyer, had an idea. He thought the
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  bus laws were unconstitutional, and he wasn't giving up. He
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  decided to sue the city and the bus company. He
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  went looking for black passengers to tell their ugliest bus
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  stories to judges in court, but he couldn't find anyone
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  willing because if their name or picture was printed in
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  the newspaper for this, you could be risking your life.
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  Fred came to our house one night after supper. He
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  explained his idea and said, already know you've got guts,
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  called it in a powerful story. Will you help This
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  was a big question. Yes, it was dangerous, but it
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  gave me another chance to help my people. I took
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  a long breath and said yes. The hearing came on
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  May eleventh, nineteen fifty six. The case was called Browner
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  versus Gill, the bus writers against the city. I wore
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  my best blue dress to the Federal courthouse. All four
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  on our side, all right, Ella Browner, Susan McDonald, Mary
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  Louise Smith and I were women. Mary and I were teenagers.
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  I was called to the witness early in the afternoon.
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  The city's lawyer tried to get me to say that
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  riding the bus was pleasant and the boycotts were simply brainwashed.
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  I stay strang and spoke our truth. His final question
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  was why did you stop riding the bus? I practically
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  spat my answer because we were treated wrong, dirty and nasty.
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  Hours later, word came that the two of the three
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  judges had agreed with us. We won. Racially segregated bus
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  seating was now illegal in Alabama. Anyone could sit in
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  any empty seat. Six months later, the Supreme Court would
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  agree with the Alabama judges, making it illegal across the
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  whole country. So it was that in my young life,
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  I took two stands for just and I would do
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  it again, because you can't just ask for change, You
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  can't sugarcoat it. You have to take a scene and
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  say this is not right, like I did. Our next
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  book is titled Michael Jordan Basketball Legend, and it was
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  published by press Room Editions. As a copywriter of twenty
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  twenty four, and the author of the book is slu Hanlon.
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  Chapter one, six for six, Michael Jordan watched intently as
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  Utah Jazz power for Karl Malone grabbed the ball on
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  the post. Then Jordan's defensive instincts kicked in. The Chicago
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  Bulls guard broke free from the player he was guarding.
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  He caught Malone by surprise from behind. After one quick
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  swipe from Jordan, the Bulls hit the ball back. Only
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  twenty seconds remain in Game six of the nineteen ninety
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  eight National Basketball Association Finals. The Jazz were leading eighty
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  six to eighty five, but the Chicago Bulls the series
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  three to two. A winning Utah would clinch Jordan's sixth
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  NBA title. The seconds ticked away, Jordan dribbled the ball
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  while waiting behind the three point line. He had already
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  scored forty three points in the game. But Jordan wasn't done.
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  Utah forward Byron Brussell moved into slow Jordan with one
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  heart dribble to the right. Jordan burst passed the Utah defender.
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  Then Jordan stopped and quickly dribbled the ball back to
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  his left hand. The move left Russell on the floor.
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  From the top of the key, Jordan calmly rose into
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  the air for a jump shot. He held his shooting
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  arm in the air until the ball hit nothing but net.
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  The stunned Utah fans went silent. The Jazz had won
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  last chance to force the game seven point guard John
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  stockson last second, he clanked off the rim. The Bulls
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  were NBA champions for the third straight year, and for
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  the sixth time. Jordan was named Finals Most Valuable Player.
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  Two Carolina kid Michael Jordan was born on February seventeenth,
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  nineteen sixty three, in Brooklyn, New York. However, his family
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  moved to North Carolina a few years later. There, Michael
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  attended Laney High School in Wilmington. That was where he
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  first played basketball. Michael wasn't a superstar right away. As
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  a sophomore, he stood five foot ten and couldn't dunk.
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  The varsity coach didn't think he was ready. Being cut
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  from the team stone Michael, but he used it as
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  motivation to work hard and get better. Michael made the
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  varsity team the next year. By the end of his
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  high school career, many top college teams wanted him. Michael
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  decided to stay in his home state and play for
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  the University of North Carolina. Coach Dean Smith had built
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  a strong program behind bettings star James Worthy. The Tarhels
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  had reached the nineteen eighty one National Championship Game. When
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  Jordan arrived in nineteen eighty one eighty two. He fit
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  in right away. The freshman average thirteen point five points
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  per game, why, helping the Tar Hills reach the National
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  Championship Game again. They faced a strong Georgetown University team.
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  The Oyas featured a superstar freshman of their own, center
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  Patrick Ewing. With fifty three seconds left, the Hoyas led
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  sixty two to sixty one, North Carolina made a basket
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  to stay alive. The Tar Hills looked to their star freshmen,
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  and Jordan delivered his difficult shot from the left wing
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  put North Carolina up sixty three to sixty two with
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  sixteen seconds left. It proved to be the championship winning shot.
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  Jordan spent two more years with the Tar Hills. As
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  a junior, he was named the National Player of the
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  Year that summer. The Chicago Bulls selected Jordan with a
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  third overall pick in the nineteen eighty four NBA draft.
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  With his athletic frame and superb quickness, Jordan took the
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  league by storm. Nineteen eighty four eighty five season, Jordan
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  averaged twenty eight point two points per g game and
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  was the NBA Rookie of the Year. By his third season,
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  in nineteen eighty six eighty seven, he averaged a league
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  high thirty seven point one points per game. This is
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  one of the highest morning averages in a season in
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  NBA history. However, Chicago was still finding its footing. The
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  Boston Celfs swept the Bulls in the first round of
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  the playoffs for the second straight year. Chapter three Air Jordan.
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  By nineteen eighty seventy eighty eight, Michael Jordan has established
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  himself as one of the NBA's most dangerous players. He
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  won the second of seven consecutive scoring titles that season.
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  As a lockdown defender, he led the league with three
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  point two steals per game, plus no player averaged more
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  minutes per game. It aled up to help Jordan earn
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  his first NBA MVP award, but he still needed to
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  prove that he could lead a playoff push after beating
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  them in the first round the previous year. The Bulls
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  faced Cleveland Cavaliers to open the nineteen nine postseason, trailing
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  one hundred and ninety eight. Late in a winter take
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  all Game five, Jordan took control with three sickens left.
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  He received an inbound pass and quickly pulled up for
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  a shot. The ball left Jordan's hands just before the
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  final buzzer sounded. It rattled around the ram before sinking
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  through the net. Jordan leaped into the air, pumping his
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  fist in celebration as the Bulls advanced. This moment became
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  known as the Shot. We will have to finish this
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  story next time, so this concludes our children's story I
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  are for today. Please join us next time as we
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