In high school my mother was bullied, raped and abused in an around school. The school did not help her. She became an alcoholic to cope as a teen.

She was a beautiful young woman. She travelled a lot with her parents and brother. My grandfather was an Army officer. They stopped their travels in Manalapan, NJ and my mother and her brother went to high school there. I have a diary entry that she wrote about her treatment in high school. She would have to have one of her few male friends walk her to her classes becuase girls in school wanted to beat her up. They called her a slut becuase many of the school boy admired her looks. This was between the years 1970-1974. I am preparing to speak with family members and friends of hers to get more information on what happened in school. This was an everyday event for her and I'm sure that the administration had to know of this. She was raped after school on day but not on school grounds. My mother may have been one of very few African American students in this school at the time. She became an abusive alcoholic to cope. Her life was never the same and she died at age 55.