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...school was the most racially balanced in the city, but by the time you are in middles school the division of the races is already established," Nelson says...
...very difficult to cross those lines, and for people like me who tired to, it was a very difficult experience justifying myself to black students and white students at the same time," Nelson continues. "So I came here because I wanted to be free of those boundaries...
...Nelson lived in Straus Hall during her first year, and after several months growing close to other students in her entryway, Nelson found another community through the Freshman Black Table (FBT). "I think that like may other Black students who come here, a lot of times I felt like some strange person who dropped out of the sky," she says. "At high school, I didn't have any other Black students who were up to my level academically. And that was a problem. I was often ostracized, criticized for doing this much hard work...
...Nelson was elected as one of the FBT's liaisons to the BSA, and for the next two years she grew more and more involved with the larger organization, serving as the BSA's recording secretary during her sophomore year. At the end of that year, Nelson was not planning to run for another BSA office because she wanted to take a semester off. But she was persuaded to run for president, after one of the other officers convinced her that the BSA needed her experience to survive as a productive organization...
...reluctantly agreed to run," Nelson says. "I think that has been my feeling about the group. it's something I felt I had to make a sacrifice for, and I did. It's the kind of thing where there is only a really small core group of people who keep the organization going, and I felt that since I had the experience, since I had the committment...