The fence symbolises a border or a margin. If you are on the other side it is a bit awkward because you would have never been there and there would be only people from a different race. However on top of the borderline (the fence) is no longer on your own side, but not the other side either. It's just like a united area, because no one is going to tell you, you can't be in the middle. Then the quote in the end, "Someday somebody's going to come along and knock this old fence down," translates that someday there will not be a border line and everyone will be united.
'The Other Side' by Jacqueline Woodson illustrates when something is not right in society, changes are needed to be made. When Clover saw the lonely white girl at the other side of the fence, she wanted to be friends with her. The book 'Freedom on the Menu' by Carole Boston Weatherford is very similar to this book, for in both stories they stand up by sitting down.
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