A girl with a heart condition collapses.
A protesting crowd threatens and sometimes beats some of the black kids and adults.
A man tells a soldier with a bayonet to "stick her," referring to a black girl trying to get into (all-white) Central High School.
A brick with a note reading "Dynamite next time" is thrown through a black woman's window.
A boy's grandpa talks to him about a 14-year-old black boy who was killed for saying "Hi, baby" to a white girl.
A black student is beaten up (off camera).
The girl with the heart condition endures a long descent down the stairs during which white students taunt her and throw food at her. They then dump her books and papers and scatter them across the floor.
A black boy steps on broken glass left in the shower by a couple white students. We hear crunching and see a bloody footprint left on the tile.
A pair of white students threaten a black student by inferring that they're going to throw his body into a river. One then pulls out a knife, to which the black student responds by pulling out a bigger knife and scaring the white boy away.
A black student chases a white student through the school after the white student pushes a black girl off the bottom steps of the staircase (she is uninjured). He then tackles the white boy and almost punches him but is stopped.
A man tells a black student over the phone that he'll be shot.
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