An Evening with Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals

1957, Little Rock, Arkansas. Melba Pattillo was fifteen when she and eight other black students integrated the prestigious Central High School. She wanted access; to the lunch counter at the five-and-dime, to the “whites only” ladies’ rooms, to public water fountains, to the auditorium so she could see Elvis Presley, and, most of all, to a good

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