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Melba Beals
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1 What were you thinking and feeling on your first day at Central High?
2 What made you decide to go to Central High?
3 How did your friends and family respond when they found out you were going to go to Central?
4 When you got to school that first day what did you encounter?
5 How did the kids inside the school behave?
6 Did the teachers and staff support you?
7 Where did you find the strength to survive?
8 What did it feel like as a kid to be in the media spotlight?
9 What happened at the end of your first year at Central?
10 What was it like to move to a new place?
11 Did you find a new family in the North?
12 How did your experience at Central High shape the rest of your life?
13 What advice do you have for young people who want to change the world?


Melba Beals was nominated for a Congressional Medal of Honor for her role in the Civil Rights movement. Her book Warriors Don't Cry, which describes her experience at Central, won the Robert F. Kennedy Book award. Her new book, White is a State of Mind, tells what happened in the years after she left Central High. Recently, we talked with Ms. Beals about her experiences as a civil rights pioneer.


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