A poem by Gwendolyn Brooks came to me. “The Chicago Defender Sends a Man to Little Rock.” I jolted in my seat at a possible connection. Brooks’s poem was written in response to the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. In the poem, the Defender sends a reporter to Little Rock to find out what on earth was wrong with the folks of Little Rock and how they could be so abusive and terrible to young students because of their skin color.