Melba Patillo Beals (Journalist ) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA on a Sunday, December 7, 1941 🎈. Melba Patillo Beals is 82 years old. She is a Sagittarius ♐ and was born in the Year of the Serpent 🐍.
American author and journalist who was a member of the Little Rock Nine, the first group of students who integrated Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.
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| FULL NAME: | Melba Patillo Beals |
| BIRTH DATE: | December 7, 1941 |
| BIRTHPLACE: | Little Rock, Arkansas, USA |
| AGE: | 82 years old |
| NATIONALITY: | American |
| ETHNICITY: | Unknown |
| ZODIAC: | Sagittarius |
| CHINESE ZODIAC: | Serpent |
About
Melba Patillo Beals is a Journalist. Melba was born in the 1940s, in the middle of the Silent Generation generation. Silent Generation are individuals born between 1925 and 1945. This generation is known for Jazz, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Malcolm X, Gone With The Wind, Mickey Mouse, Andy Warhol, Clint Eastwood, Bob Dylan. The Silent Generation has experienced critical historical events, including the Korean War, The Cold War, the McCarthy Hearings, and the Space Race.
She married John Beals, with whom she had two sons and one daughter. Find out who is Melba Patillo Beals dating right now.
She enrolled in Central High in 1957, where she faced much hostility and eventually had to change schools when Central High shut down for two years.
DID YOU KNOW She published two books about her experience, Warriors Don’t Cry and White is a State of Mind.
FACT U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in the 101st airborne to protect her and the other students from protestors at the high school.
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Birthday
Currently, Melba Patillo Beals is 82 years old. Her next birthday is away. Melba will celebrate her 83rd birthday on a Sunday, December 7th. She shares a birthday with everyone who was born on December 7, 1941. Below is the countdown to her next birthday.
Zodiac
Melba Patillo Beals’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius. People born between the dates of November 22nd to December 21st belong to the ninth sign in the zodiac, Sagittarius. Libras are known for being loyal, optimistic, and intellectual. Aries is the most compatible sign for Sagittarius.
Famous Sagittarius celebrities are Chadwick Boseman, Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Brad Pitt, Rita Ora, Chrissy Teigen, Jay-Z, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Nostradamus. Sagittarius ruling planet is Jupiter. Astrologically, Jupiter represents luck, fortune, and success.
Melba Patillo Beals was born in the Year of the Serpent. Serpent symbolizes fertility and rebirth in Chinese culture. People born in the Year of the Snake are intelligent, enigmatic, intuitive, charming, and beautiful. They can also sometimes be hedonistic, vain, malicious, overly materialistic, and duplicitous.
This year is the Year of the Dragon.
DID YOU KNOW United States life expectancy is about 78.5 years.
Melba Patillo Beals is a 82 years old Journalist, born in December, in the Year of the Serpent (1941), and is a Sagittarius. Her life path number is 7. Melba’s birthstone is Tanzanite, Turquoise, Zircon and Topaz, and her birth flower is Narcissus. You may also check out all famous birthdays in December or specifically birthdays on December 7.
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