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Melba Beals Racism

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Melba Beals was one of the first nine black students to attend a white school. White people, angry segregationist mobs, and even the Arkansas governor tried to keep her and the other students from going to a white school. They expressed their resentment by being very rude and trying to block them from going in. But she didn’t yell back or get angry because she knew that it wouldn’t help her case of going to school. Beals says, “Some of the white people looked totally horrified, while others raised their fists to us.” Beals developed an understanding of how racist her world was and realized how terrible it was. She wished that white people could have realized this needed to be done without the president interfering. Beals stated, “Proud that

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