- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Melba Pattillo Beals
- Contributor to Resource:
- Melba Pattillo Beals
Eyes on the Prize (PBS) - Date of Original:
- 1955/1957
- Subject:
- African American high school students--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American girls--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American civil rights workers--Arkansas--Little Rock
Women civil rights workers--Arkansas--Little Rock
Civil rights workers--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American women--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American students--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Massive resistance--Arkansas--Little Rock
Students--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Segregation
African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock
Civil rights movements--Arkansas--Little Rock
Civil rights demonstrations--Arkansas--Little Rock
Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation--Arkansas--Little Rock
White Citizens councils--Arkansas--Little Rock
Intimidation--Arkansas--Little Rock
Federal-state controversies--Arkansas--Little Rock
Mobs--Arkansas--Little Rock
Soldiers--Arkansas--Little Rock
Intervention (Federal government)--Arkansas--Little Rock
Government, Resistance to--Southern States
Police--Arkansas--Little Rock
Social justice--United States
Race relations
Equality
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Dunbar Junior High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Horace Mann High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Arkansas National Guard
Eyes on the Prize (Television program) - People:
- Beals, Melba
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994 - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
- Medium:
- instructional materials
teaching guides
resource units
interviews
oral histories (literary works)
transcripts
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
Sound
Text - Format:
- text/html
video/quicktime - Description:
- This interview with Melba Pattillo Beals recalls her experience as one of the nine African American students who attended Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Against a backdrop of white resistance and racial violence, Beals and eight other students desegregated Central High School under armed federal escort. Beals was frequently assaulted and harassed by whites while a student at Central High.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 9-12.
Lesson plans using this resource: Re-Examining Brown.
A transcript of the Quicktime movie is available.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.beals/
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
- Extent:
- text/pdf
8.4 Mb
ca. 5m 58s - Original Collection:
- Washington University Libraries, Henry Hampton Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights:
-
