In 1957, well before Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock's Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all,...
In 1957, well before Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil ...
Bestselling author and one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School in 1957 tells her story of how faith and family have enabled her to stand strong in the face of extreme hatred and racial prejudice.
Bestselling author and one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School in 1957 tells her story of how faith and family have enabled her...
