Melba Patillo Beals

In the mid-20th century many African-American citizens still did not have equal rights in the United States. In 1954, in Little Rock, Arkansas, we saw an example when Arkansas Governor Oval Forbas ignored the Supreme Court's decision to cancel school quarantine ("Melba Patillo Beals" 1). One person who worked hard to change the isolated school and ended it was Melbabilis. She and her other eight friends (known as "Little Rock 9") took part in an all white school and took a huge and progressive step of the civil rights movement.

On September 3, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown (Trickey), Carlotta Walls (LaNier), Terrence Roberts, Gloria Ray (Karlmark), Thelma Mothershed - Wair, Melba Patillo Beals started school. Governor of Arkansas Governor Orvel Faubus sent a guard the day before to go to school to surround the building and all African Americans could not enter the gate. In the interview, he said that the reason of the army was heard rumors about the riots of white superiorists who just protected the students. He announced that Central Highland banned the color of everyone "for their protection." On that day, the students have never been to school. Before they got to the land, they encountered great resistance from racist citizens, spit on them, laughed at them, threw them sharp things, and even beat them physically did. Melba explains the deep injuries she saw for the first time in her life.

In spite of strong opposition, nine students were registered as the first African-Americans to enter Central High School. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls are recruited by the Chairman of the Arkansas Colored Association Federation and the Arkansas State University Press Bureau. Influential African American newspaper. The National Association's Daisy Bates for Promotion of Colored People in Arkansas and others carefully considered the students and decided that they all had the strength and determination to stand up to the resistance they encountered . During the few weeks before the beginning of the new term, the students opened intensive counseling sessions, taught what happens after the course begins, and how to respond to anticipated hostile actions.

In the same year, pioneer Melba Patigio, also known as Arkansas' Little Rock Nine, experienced the harsh reality in a community that resisted the idea of ​​a comprehensive school. She once again talks about the burning record of the first day at the Central High School and how quickly the dream of her terrible fusion will become uneasy. 8 days after the 14th birthday, in Birmingham, Alabama, Francis Foster attempted to integrate the lunch counter into her local shop, wearing her birthday dress. She is one of many people inspired by the words of Martin Luther King. The deep position at her lunch counter made it part of the non-violent movement she made actions in the South.