Melba Beals was a black girl who was one of the nine black students the the Arkansas governor tried to keep out of Central High School, but the president sent federal troops to Little Rock to make sure the students got in safely, during the time of major segregation. Beals faced racial tension, angry segregated mobs, soldiers, and she was a black going to a only white school. The school that she attended was for whites only. Because she was black, loads of people hated her. As a result of that, she had to learn to stay calm from all of the horrible things they would say about her. Melba beals states “I was a little concerned because many people, even those who knew me well, were staring as though I was different from them.” She learned
