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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (1994)

por Melba Pattillo Beals

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Biography & Autobiography. Juvenile Nonfiction. Reference. The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard-opposition so intense that soldiers from the elite 101st Airborne Division were called in to restore order. For Melba Beals and her eight friends those steps marked their transformation into reluctant warriors-on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement.Warriors Don't Cry, drawn from Melba Beals's personal diaries, is a riveting true account of her junior year at Central High-one filled with telephone threats, brigades of attacking mothers, rogue police, fireball and acid-throwing attacks, economic blackmail, and, finally, a price upon Melba's head. With the help of her English-teacher mother; her eight fellow warriors; and her gun-toting, Bible-and-Shakespeare-loving grandmother, Melba survived. And, incredibly, from a year that would hold no sweet-sixteen parties or school plays, Melba Beals emerged with indestructible faith, courage, strength, and hope.… (mais)
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A a s Abridged young readers edition. Photographs, and epilogue.
  VillageProject | Feb 27, 2024 |
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. ( )
  mapg.genie | 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. ( )
  CarolHicksCase | Mar 12, 2023 |
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  AmCorNoviPazar | Oct 20, 2022 |
Honest and straight-forward, Melba doesn't pull any punches when telling her story. I am glad she became a journalist and could share her role in history without the filter of other people. Fascinating and highly recommended. ( )
  fionaanne | Nov 11, 2021 |
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I dedicate this book to the eight brave and gentle warriors with whom I attended Central High School in 1957:

Elizabeth Eckford
Ernest Green
Gloria Ray Karlmark
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Minnijean Brown Trickey
Terrence Roberts
Jefferson Thomas
Thelma Mothershed Wair

and to our mothers, fathers, and family members who supported us through this incredible experience
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Some people call me a heroine because I was one of nine black teenagers who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957. (Author's Note)
The stone steps are slippery with morning drizzle as we begin the tedious climb up to the front door of Central High School. (Introduction: Little Rock Warriors Thirty Years Later)
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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Black folks aren't born expecting segregation, prepared from day one to follow its confining rules.  Nobody presents you with a handbook when you're teething and says, "Here's how you must behave as a second-class citizen."   Instead, the humiliating experiences creep over you, slowing stealing a teaspoonful of your self-esteem each day.  (Chap.2)
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Biography & Autobiography. Juvenile Nonfiction. Reference. The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard-opposition so intense that soldiers from the elite 101st Airborne Division were called in to restore order. For Melba Beals and her eight friends those steps marked their transformation into reluctant warriors-on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement.Warriors Don't Cry, drawn from Melba Beals's personal diaries, is a riveting true account of her junior year at Central High-one filled with telephone threats, brigades of attacking mothers, rogue police, fireball and acid-throwing attacks, economic blackmail, and, finally, a price upon Melba's head. With the help of her English-teacher mother; her eight fellow warriors; and her gun-toting, Bible-and-Shakespeare-loving grandmother, Melba survived. And, incredibly, from a year that would hold no sweet-sixteen parties or school plays, Melba Beals emerged with indestructible faith, courage, strength, and hope.

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