''Melba Pattillo Beals, one of nine African-American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, answered questions from students in February 1998 & 1999 during live interviews. Today, Melba is a successful author and speaker, but as a teenager, she encountered many obstacles in her effort to receive an education equal to white students in Little Rock. She and the rest of the Little Rock Nine were the focus of a bitter fight that became a major event in American history.''