Authors: Melba Pattillo Beals
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-03 - Publisher: Tantor eBooks
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed