| Name: | Melba Patillo Beals |
| Occupation: | Journalist |
| Gender: | Female |
| Birth Day: | December 7, 1941 |
| Age: | 83 |
| Birth Place: | Little Rock - Arkansas |
| Zodiac Sign: | Sagittarius |
| DOB in Roman: | XII.VII.MCMXLI |
Melba Patillo Beals
Melba Patillo Beals was born on 7 December 1941(83 years old) in Arkansas. Melba Patillo Beals is Journalist, Zodiac sign - Sagittarius. More detail about Melba Patillo Beals given below.
About Melba Patillo Beals
Author and journalist who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, the first group of students in Little Rock, Arkansas, to integrate Central High School.
Melba Joy Pattillo Beals is an American journalist and educator who was a member of Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who pioneered Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Trivia
She published two books about her experience, Warriors Don't Cry and White is a State of Mind.
Melba Patillo Beals before fame
She enrolled in Central High in 1957, where she faced much hostility and eventually had to change schools when Central High shut down for two years.
Achievement of Melba Patillo Beals
Warriors Don't Cry and White is a State of Mind are two novels she wrote on her experiences.
Salary 2020
Not known
Net Worth 2020
Undisclosed
Melba Patillo Beals family life
She married John Beals and had two sons and one daughter with him.
Associations of Melba Patillo Beals
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in the 101st airborne to protect her and the other students from protestors at the high school.
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