Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Paperback - 1995
by Melba Pattillo Beals
Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School in 1957. For Melba and her friends it marked their transformation into reluctant warriors--on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. Warriors Don't Cry is their riveting story. Optioned by Disney for a feature film.
Summary
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.
First line
IN 1957, WHILE MOST TEENAGE GIRLS WERE LISTENING TO BUDDY Holly's "Peggy Sue," watching Elvis gyrate, and collecting crinoline slips, I was escaping the hanging rope of a lynch mob, dodging lighted sticks of dynamite, and washing away burning acid sprayed into my eyes.
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- Title Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
- Author Melba Pattillo Beals
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Washington Square Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-02-01
- ISBN 9780671866396 / 0671866397
- Weight 0.66 lbs (0.30 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 5.34 x 0.8 in (21.23 x 13.56 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 12 to 17 years
- Grade levels 7 - 12
- Reading level 1000
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Cultural Region: Deep South
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Arkansas
- Holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Library of Congress subjects African American students - Arkansas -, School integration - Arkansas - Little Rock
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93044590
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Publishers Weekly, 08/18/1997, Page 0
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