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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Mass market paperback - 2007
by Melba Pattillo Beals
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
Originally published more than a decade ago, this searing account of the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock--an ALA Nonfiction Book of the Year--is written by one of the black teenagers chosen to become warriors on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.
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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 Mass Market Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: repri
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon Pulse, U.S.A.
- Date 2007-07-24
- Abridged Yes
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Abridged, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1416948821-4-19633696
- ISBN 9781416948827 / 1416948821
- Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
- Dimensions 7.06 x 4.97 x 0.67 in (17.93 x 12.62 x 1.70 cm)
- Ages 12 to 17 years
- Grade levels 7 - 12
- Reading level 1000
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Catalog Heading: Social Studies
- Cultural Region: South
- Curriculum Strand: Social Studies
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Discrimination in education - United States, African American students - Arkansas -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007279452
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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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.
