Melba Pattillo Beals

Melba Pattillo Beals (1941 - )was one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who integrated all-white Central High School.

Beal was born on December 7, 1941. Beals double majored in journalism and sociology as an undergraduate at San Francisco State University and was awarded a master's degree in broadcasting at Columbia University. She received an Ed.D. degree from the University of San Francisco in 2009. Beals is the author of two books: Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (1994), and White Is a State of Mind: A Memoir (1999).

References

• Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (New York: Pocket Books, 1994).
• Melba Pattillo Beals, White Is a State of Mind: A Memoir (Putnam Adult, 1999).
• Jerry Dean, "For Little Rock 9, Time Has Not Diminished Act," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, September 3, 1987.