When Melba Pattillo Beals heard Beyoncé sing a line from the Beatles’ “Blackbird” on her new album last week, she was transported back to a morning in September 1957, when she and eight ...

The Travelers will honor all nine of the brave students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, Melba Pattillo-Beals, Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Minnijean Brown ...

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Melba Pattillo Beals loved the Beatles’ 1968 hit “Blackbird” long before she knew she had helped inspire it, she tells the Washington Post’s Kyle Melnick. Beals, now 82, was a member of ...

Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Wells were the first Black students at the school ...

Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas and Carlotta Wells were the first Black students at the school ...

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