The Little Rock Nine inspired the Beatles hit “Blackbird” in 1968. Beyoncé covered the song on her new album, “Cowboy Carter.”
In 1957, 101st Airborne Division members stood guard outside Central High School in Little Rock, where nine Black students were escorted into an all-White school. her new album last week, she was transported back to a morning in September 1957, when she and eight other Black students arrived at an all-White Arkansas school.Beatles hit from the first time she heard it — long before she learned in 2016 that her story had inspired it.
“Paul McCartney said by writing that song, ‘I hear you. I may not be able to rescue you, but I hear you singing in your dark,’” she said. But the nine students continued to be harassed. Beals said students sent flaming paper towels into her bathroom stall. She said a girl once sprayed acid into her eyes with a water gun, and another time, someone tried to throw a knife at her head.
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