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An Evening with Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals
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Feeder on 01 September, 2010 10:51:30
 
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