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Auditorium Speaker Series.(ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION 2009 / EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION)(Calendar)

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The Auditorium Speaker Series will be held Saturday-Tuesday of Annual Conference. Additional speakers are being added to this series. Please check the Annual Conference Web-Site at www.ala.org/annual for updates.

ALSC President's Program Featuring Melba Pattillo Beals

Monday, July 13, 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

At the age of 15, Melba Pattillo Beals walked her way into the history books as one of the nine courageous students who faced down furious segregationists, the Arkansas National Guard and the Governor of Arkansas in order to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957. She has written two bestselling books as a result of her experience, Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock Central High School and its sequel White is a State of Mind: Freedom is Yours to Choose. …

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