Resources by Melba Pattillo Beals

I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire

by Melba Pattillo Beals, Gerald Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione-Jampolsky

In 1957, Melba Beals was one of the nine African American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. But her story of overcoming didn't start--or end--there. While her white schoolmates were planning their senior prom, Melba was facing the business end of a double-barreled shotgun, being threatened with lynching by rope-ca… Read more…