Melba Pattillo Beals (1941)
Melba Joy Patillo Beals is an American journalist and educator who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students who were the first to racially integrate Little Rock Central High…
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Jan Keizer (1940)
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Owen Arthur (1949)
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Greg Ballard (1955)
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