Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Mass Market Author: Melba Pattillo Beals | Language: English | ISBN:
1416948821 | Format: EPUB
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Mass Market Description
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""Beals, one of the nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, AR, in 1957, tells an incredible story of faith, family love, friendships, and strong personal commitment."" ---School Library Journal
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Audio CD
edition.
About the Author
Melba Pattillo Beals is a journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to integrate Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Age Range: 12 and up
- Grade Level: 7 and up
- Lexile Measure: 1000L (What's this?)
- Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Simon Pulse; Reissue edition (July 24, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416948821
- ISBN-13: 978-1416948827
- Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Warriors Don't Cry is the moving story of the nine Black teenagers who dared
to integrate Central High School. The story is told by one of the
teenagers, Melba Pattillo.
Ms. Pattillo begins the story in 1954 when the Supreme Court of the United
States in Brown v. the Board of Education held that separate but equal
schools were inherently unequal and ordered school districts to desegregate
with all deliberate speed. She recalls that white people in Little Rock
were outraged and while walking home on the date the decision was handed
down an angry white man attempted to rape a 12 year old Melba. Such a
chilling response to the order to integrate is an eerie prelude to the
ordeal Melba and the eight others endured in their effort to integrate
Central High School.
Following Brown the Little Rock School District came up with a plan to
integrate which limited integration to Central High School and delayed the
process of integration until September 1957. Arkansas Governor Faubus came
out against any type of integration and when it came time for Melba and the
others to integrate Central in September 1957, Governor Faubus sent out the
Arkansas National Guard and the Arkansas State Troopers to block the
students from entering. President Eisenhower in turn sent the United States
National Guard to Central High School to enforce the order of the Court.
This crisis of federalism was another interesting story line in the book
chocked full with drama.
Once inside the school with the assistance of the federal National Guard,
the treatment the Black students received was disgusting, unbelievable and
heartbreaking.
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