Melba Beals Discusses Integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Author Melba Beals. Forty years ago today the United States Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional in "Brown v. Board of Education." Three years later, Beals and eight other black teenagers chose to attend the all white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the process Beals suffered a school year marked by unremitting violence and hatred. Danny, the soldier assigned to protect her, warned her that she too would have to become a soldier. He advised her, "Never let them see you cry." Beals has written a memoir about her experience called "Warriors Don't Cry" (Pocket Books). (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)