An innocent teenager.
Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob\'s rope, attacked.
Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to Integrate Little Rock\'s Central High School.
Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v.
That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm.
In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen.
An unexpected hero.
An innocent teenager