Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

Type

Book

Authors

Melba Pattillo Beals

ISBN 10

1416948821

ISBN 13

9781416948827

Tags

Prejudice & Racism, Historical, Multicultural, United States, Multicultural Stories, Cultural Heritage, Prejudice, Discrimination & Racism

Description

An innocent teenager. An unexpected hero. In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. 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. This is her remarkable story. - from Amzon

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