Warriors Don't Cry : The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (9781416948827)

In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement's most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity. In 1957, well before Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock's Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down. Warriors Don't Cry is, at times, a difficult but necessary reminder of the valuable lessons we can learn from our nation's past. It is a story of courage and the bravery of a handful of young, black students who used their voices to influence change during a turbulent time.

Product details

• For ages 12-17
• Format Paperback | 240 pages
• Dimensions 126 x 179 x 17mm | 132g
• Publication date 24 Jul 2007
• Publisher Simon & Schuster
• Publication City/Country New York, NY, United States
• Language English
• Edition Abridged
• Edition Statement Abridged edition
• Illustrations note Illustrations, unspecified
• ISBN10 1416948821
• ISBN13 9781416948827
• Bestsellers rank 138,544

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