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What Are Melba's Obstacles

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Melba Pattillo Beals, was one of the first African-American students to go to Little Rock Central High School, she and her Eight friends then came to be the "Little Rock Nine". While they were at school, only a few other students behaved/acted normal around them. Most days Melba would be worried if she was going to get hurt, when she was most-likely going to have to all the segregationists' telling the other student's to do so. She went through hard times until the soldiers came, but even they couldn't stop everything that was happening. When the soldiers left, she was scared, but after a while, Melba held her head high, and moved on, and became stronger and braver. I face challenges every day that are similar to Melba. One challenge is when

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