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Melba Pattillo Beals is a recipient of this country's highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, for her role, as a fifteen-year-old, in the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has been a university professor, a television broadcaster and news reporter, a radio talk mostrar mais show host, and a writer for various magazines. Her award-winning book Warriors Don't Cry has sold more than one million copies. She lives in San Francisco and is the mother of three adult children. mostrar menos
Image credit: Spc. Jeffrey Stevenson, from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) escorts Little Rock Nine member Melba Pattillo Beals to the newly dedicated Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Visitor Center after the dedciation ceremony Sept. 24, 2007. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class N. Maxfield Operation Arkansas By The U.S. Army - arkansasUploaded by Gary Dee, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17792865

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Reader's Digest Today's Best Nonfiction 32 (1995) — Autor, algumas edições9 exemplares

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A a s Abridged young readers edition. Photographs, and epilogue.
 
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VillageProject | 32 outras críticas | Feb 27, 2024 |
This is an autobiography of a woman who was one of the Little Rock Nine. As a black student, she was chosen to integrate into an all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas in the 1950s. The book tells of her harrowing experiences and faith in God's protection.
 
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galoma | 5 outras críticas | Dec 11, 2023 |
Courageous, determined, brave, gutsy, and many more adjectives all describe Melba during the school year of 1957-58 in the attempts of the Little Rock Nine to integrate Central High School. The unfathomable mental and physical brutality and torture inflicted by the segregationists on these teenagers was relentless. How any of the nine survived is amazing and the fact that eight of them completed the year, shows the depth of their integration conviction.

It also highlights the struggles of Melba's family to support her valiant efforts to receive the same quality of education as her white counterparts in their setting.

As readers we are very fortunate that Melba shared her experiences in this book, as so many of us have no idea what African-Americans have experienced and, unfortunately, many probably still experience, along with other racial minorities.

I was a white, northern, naive 10-year-old in 1957; I cannot imagine the courage it took for those nine students to start, then continue, this monumental effort.
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mapg.genie | 32 outras críticas | Apr 29, 2023 |
4.5 stars. Wow, was I uneducated about the integration of Central High School before I read this book. What the 9 students faced is almost unimaginable. The book was enlightening and educational.
 
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