Melba Beals

Starting the year off with a speaker who had first hand experience with the civil rights movement and school integration was a wonderful start for students and faculty to think about where schools are today with integration and what action we need to take to move in positive directions. In Beals programs she talked about her own experience being one of the first to be integrated into Little Rock Central High School in 1957. From there she expressed her life since then, becoming a journalist and doing public speaking. Beals talked about the importance of caring in schools and in the classrooom. By simply caring issues of such prejudice can be corrected and justice can become closer to reality.