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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 friend 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-living grandmother, Melba survived. "Dignity," said Grandmother India, "is a state of mind, just like freedom." 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. --Publisher
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
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Warriors Don't Cry: Unabridged
September 1996, Perfection Learning Prebound, Perfection Learning, San Val
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Warriors Don't Cry: Abridged
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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Feb 10, 1995, Demco Media
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Warriors don't cry: a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High
1995, Pocket Books
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Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock
February 1, 1995, Washington Square Press
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