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A survey was conducted by the NAACP in the Student Union office to attempt to discover the current opinion concerning racial problems.
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University of Arkansas school of law is integrated
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Melba Pattillo was born on December 7, 1941, in Little Rock (Pulaski County)
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September, 1949 University of Arkansas School of Law is integrated.
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When Melba was a seventh grader, the supreme court of Topeka, Kansas ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional
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The Supreme Court of the United States made a historic ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka when it declared that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional.
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Twenty-seven black students attempt to register in all-white Little Rock schools, but are turned down.
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Someone hit Melba with a tennis racket from the back
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the governer of Arkansas files the case in court to appeal for the suspension of integration in Arkansas schools. Litter Rock Nine does get to go to Central HS yet.
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1200 soldiers fromm the National Army came to Littler Rock to make sure the integration proceeds,
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Her first day of school
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Melba and the rest of the LR9 met up at the assemembly point ant they were escorted to the building by soldiers.
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Someone threw a lit stick of dynamite into the stairwell where Melba and Danny were
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101st Airborne was not in the Littler Rock Central.
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A boy ran up to Melba with a small bottle and spray liquid over her face.
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Half of the soldiers of the 101st Arborne left Litter Rock
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After Thanksgiving, all the soldiers leave and the LR9 lose the backguards.
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A group of the students were taunting Minniejean in the cafeteria while she was holding her tray of food. she lost her balance and spilled chiki all over two students.
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The superintented warns Minnijean that she shuold not react to anyone who taunts her.
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Minnijean gets expelled from Central
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Pattillo married Matthew Beals. They had one daughter but divorced after ten years of marriage. She subsequently adopted two boys.