Melba Pattillo Beals

Target entity: Melba Pattillo Beals
Context triple: [Little Rock Nine, member, Melba Pattillo Beals]

• A. Elizabeth Eckford
  Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who bravely integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, becoming a symbol of the civil rights movement.
• B. Ruby Bridges
  Ruby Bridges is a civil rights icon who, as a six-year-old in 1960, became the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the American South.
• C. Barbara Johns
  Barbara Johns was a pioneering African American civil rights activist who, as a teenager, led a 1951 student strike against segregation in Farmville, Virginia, helping spark the legal challenges that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education.
• D. Ida Jackson
  Ida Jackson is a character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the struggles and moral complexities within a Harlem Pentecostal community.
• E. Claudette Colvin
  Claudette Colvin is an American civil rights pioneer who, as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger months before Rosa Parks and later served as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that ended bus segregation.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Melba Pattillo Beals
Target entity description: Melba Pattillo Beals is an American civil rights activist and journalist best known as one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School in 1957.

• A. Elizabeth Eckford
  Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine, the African American students who bravely integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957, becoming a symbol of the civil rights movement.
• B. Ruby Bridges
  Ruby Bridges is a civil rights icon who, as a six-year-old in 1960, became the first Black child to integrate an all-white elementary school in the American South.
• C. Barbara Johns
  Barbara Johns was a pioneering African American civil rights activist who, as a teenager, led a 1951 student strike against segregation in Farmville, Virginia, helping spark the legal challenges that culminated in Brown v. Board of Education.
• D. Ida Jackson
  Ida Jackson is a character in James Baldwin’s play "The Amen Corner," representing the struggles and moral complexities within a Harlem Pentecostal community.
• E. Claudette Colvin
  Claudette Colvin is an American civil rights pioneer who, as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger months before Rosa Parks and later served as a key plaintiff in the landmark case that ended bus segregation.
• F. None of above. chosen