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Beals relocated to Santa Rosa, California with help from the NAACP to complete her senior year of high school at Montgomery High School. Beals lived with the family of foster parents Dr. George and Carol McCabe. [4] At the age of seventeen, she began writing for major newspapers and magazines.
Jan 15, 2018 · 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,...
Aug 8, 2024 · Beals grew up surrounded by family members who knew the importance of an education. Her mother, Lois Marie Pattillo, PhD, was one of the first Black graduates of the University of Arkansas (UA) in Fayetteville (Washington County) in 1954 and was a high school English teacher at the time of the crisis. Her father, Howell Pattillo, worked for the ...
Jun 11, 2019 · In early 1957, Little Rock, Arkansas native Melba Pattillo transferred from Horace Mann High School to Little Rock Central High School for her junior year.
Nov 19, 2021 · Melba Pattillo Beals’s Warriors Don’t Cry, published in 1994, is a first-person account of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Melba Pattillo was born on December 7, 1941, in Little Rock (Pulaski County) to Lois Marie Pattillo, PhD, and Howell Pattillo.
Explore Melba Pattillo's first day at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she is met by violent mobs of white people. Melba Beals is one of the nine African American students who integrated the school.
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Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who in 1957 enrolled at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School, discusses her memoir of that time, I Will Not Fear.
