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Pbs Learning Media: Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals
Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black students who desegregated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Beals describes her tumultuous experience. [5:58]
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University of Iowa: 1957 the Little Rock Nine
Tells the story of the nine students who were the first African-Americans to attend Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas on September 4, 1957 when it was desegreagated. The uproar and resistance to this caused President Eisenhower...