One Crazy Summer Chapter 10 Summary

Breakfast Program

  • The girls arrive at the People's Center to a sea of hungry kids, from young ones to teenagers, waiting outside.
  • There are guards with rifles standing outside, too.
  • Then a police car comes driving by.
  • Delphine hands the box to the first Black Panther she sees and the girls head off in search of food.
  • A few key figures stand out to Delphine: three girls who promise to be their rivals, as well as a lanky guy with an Afro—the same guy from the telephone booth the night before.
  • He confronts them, too.
  • Apparently he sees something wrong with the way Delphine and her sisters look, and he really doesn't like that Fern's doll is white. After all, why should a little black girl have a white doll? It's just wrong, he points out.
  • Spunky little Fern doesn't take flack from anybody, though, and the other Panthers like her attitude when she shrugs him off.
  • Some other members tell this guy—Crazy Kelvin—to back down.
  • One of the people who stands up to him is named Sister Mukumbu.
  • The girls get some food that reminds us of your classic continental breakfast at a roadside motel, cold scrambled eggs and all.
  • While they still hear some ridicule from the other kids, the sisters stick together and stand up for each other. Go team.