Melba Pattillo Beals
Autor von Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
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Melba Pattillo Beals is a recipient of this country's highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, for her role, as a fifteen-year-old, in the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has been a university professor, a television broadcaster and news reporter, a radio talk mehr anzeigen show host, and a writer for various magazines. Her award-winning book Warriors Don't Cry has sold more than one million copies. She lives in San Francisco and is the mother of three adult children. weniger anzeigen
Bildnachweis: Spc. Jeffrey Stevenson, from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) escorts Little Rock Nine member Melba Pattillo Beals to the newly dedicated Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Visitor Center after the dedciation ceremony Sept. 24, 2007. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class N. Maxfield Operation Arkansas By The U.S. Army - arkansasUploaded by Gary Dee, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17792865
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