Claudette

Claudette was radicalized by a schoolteacher named Miss Geraldine Nesbitt. She had an M.A. in education from Columbia. She was a hard teacher of English and used literature to teach about light. She taught the Constitution and they would read the Bible from a literary point of view. Nesbitt brought her own books from home. Many blacks were worried about the coming integration with whites and didn't want it to happen. Claudette wanted an integrated world and thought that with whites at schools, the school would get more money. Nesbitt taught Claudette about black history, that blacks had a culture before then. Claudette grew in confidence and changed her views. She started to believe that race had no moral significance. She wanted to liberate her people after reading about Harriet Tubman. In 1955, Nesbitt taught Negro History Week and Claudette learned about massive injustice.