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The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence — to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.

Melba Pattillo Beals

My eight friends and I paid for the integration of Central High with our innocence. During those years when we desperately needed approval from our peers, we were victims of the most harsh rejection imaginable. The physical and psychological punishment we endured profoundly affected all our lives. It transformed us into warriors who dared not cry even when we suffered intolerable pain.

Melba Pattillo Beals

Melba Pattillo Beals

Melba Pattillo Beals

Born: December 7, 1941 (age 83)

Bio: Melba Pattillo Beals is a journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to integrate Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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