Warriors Don't Cry
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Warriors Don't Cry

Warriors Don't Cry

by Melba Pattillo Beals

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780671866396
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Publication date: 02/01/1995
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 274,797
Product dimensions: 5.31(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile: 1000L (what's this?)
Age Range: 12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Melba Pattillo Beals is a journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to integrate Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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