Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
- Author: Melba Pattillo Beals.
- Publisher: Simon Pulse
- Pages: 240
- Publication Date: 2007
- Edition: Abridged
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- MSRP: 6.99
- ISBN13: 9781416948827
- ISBN: 1416948821
- Language: en
- Store Location: Teen
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In this compelling autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement's most powerful figures, Beals explores not only the power of racism, but also the ideas of justice 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.
Country USA
Brand Simon Pulse
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Binding Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781416948827
ReleaseDate 2007-07-24
UnitCount 1
Format Abridged
EANs 8580001051772

Country	USA
Brand	Simon Pulse
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781416948827
ReleaseDate	2007-07-24
UnitCount	1
Format	Abridged
EANs	8580001051772

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

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