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What is the key to creating change?

According to author and revolutionary Melba Patillo Beals, the key is commitment to the cause. Focus Question What would you be willing to do to change the world? What commitments would you make?. What is the key to creating change?. Well, who is this Melba?.

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What is the key to creating change?

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  1. According to author and revolutionary Melba Patillo Beals, the key is commitment to the cause. Focus Question What would you be willing to do to change the world? What commitments would you make? What is the key to creating change?

  2. Well, who is this Melba? • Melba is the author of Warriors Don’t Cry, a memoir about her experiences battling the practice of segregation in the public schools. This is Melba today.

  3. What makes her a revolutionary? • I say that she is a revolutionary because, through commitment and courage, her hardships changed the world for future generations. Her experiences paved the way for the integration of all public schools in America AND unlocked many doors for African-Americans all over the world.

  4. Why should we care about Melba and what she endured? If you care about • your country • humanity • equality you’ll care about Melba, too.

  5. Now, about her memoir… Diary entries from Melba’s year as an African-American student integrating an all-white school in Little Rock, Arkansas, help tell the story of Melba’s suffering and determination. More importantly, they document a time in our history—a time when skin color meant too much—that many people today are ashamed to discuss.

  6. Now, you… The content of this memoir will evoke many emotions while provoking much questioning. You’ll be compelled to examine dominant practices and ways of thinking, and most importantly, you’ll reflect on your own practices to understand the significance of your behavior. What do you do, AND what can you do to promote change within your own society?

  7. Would you be willing to live in constant fear? Melba was. In a 1998 interview, she reveals her feelings as an African-American student in an all-white high school: I was really frightened at Central. There really is no word big enough to explain the fear I felt. It was as though a hand was clutching my stomach. It was the first time I felt my heart beat really fast. And it was the first time I thought to myself that I could be killed or I could be really hurt.

  8. She continues: The people who surrounded Central High School carried ropes to hang us with, guns and knives to kill us with. They shouted "nigger go home" — and that was the most polite thing they shouted — and they attacked us for no reason. All we had to do was walk near them and they'd attack us. It was an angry, raging mob. Beals, Melba Patillo. Scholastic Interview Transcript, Scholastic.com, 1998.

  9. So the key to change must be You!

  10. Sources Picture and quotes: http://teacher.scholastic.com/barrier/hwyf/mpbstory/melchat.htm

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