Beals, Melba Pattillo

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January 15, 2018

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'They Didn't Want Me There': Remembering The Terror Of School Integration

In 1957, three years after the Supreme Court declared segregated schools unconstitutional, Melba Pattillo Beals was one of nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.

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