One civil rights icon is ‘trying to demystify the hero thing’

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One civil rights icon is ‘trying to demystify the hero thing’

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Jan 21, 2019

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Six decades after Minnijean Brown became one of the Little Rock Nine, one of the first nine black students to desegregate a high school in Little Rock, Ark., she has a new mission: showing the world just how scared she was as it happened.

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Jan 21, 2019

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One civil rights icon is ‘trying to demystify the hero thing’

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