When Melba Pattillo Beals heard Beyoncé sing ... Beals, a member of the group known as the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School, had loved the 1968 Beatles hit from the first ...

Melba Pattillo Beals loved the Beatles ... Beals, now 82, was a member of the group of students known as the Little Rock Nine, who integrated an Arkansas high school in 1957.

If you have extra time, Little Rock Central High School National Historic ... Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Pattillo, Gloria Ray, Terrence Roberts ...

In 1957, nine ... at Little Rock Central High School. The school had been all-white since its construction in 1927. Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba ...