“IN 1957, WHILE MOST TEENAGE GIRLS WERE LISTENING TO BUDDY Holly's "Peggy Sue," watching Elvis gyrate, and collecting crinoline slips, I was escaping the hanging rope of a lynch mob, dodging lighted sticks of dynamite, and washing away burning acid sprayed into my eyes.”
The remarkable story of Melba Pattillo who, at the age of 16, became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm when she and nine others were chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.