Warriors Don't Cry

Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock

Author: Melba Beals
ISBN: 9780671866396

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 the gauntlet between a rampaging mob and the heavily armed Arkansas National Guard, dispatched by Governor Orval Faubus to subvert federal law and bar them from entering the school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded by sending in soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division, the elite "Screaming Eagles" - and transformed Melba Pattillo and her eight friends into reluctant warriors on the battlefield of civil rights. May 17, 1994, marks the fortieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which was argued and won by Thurgood Marshall, whose passion and presence emboldened the Little Rock struggle. Melba Pattillo Beals commemorates the milestone decision in this first-person account of her ordeal at the center of the violent confrontation

Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publish Date: 1995-02-01

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage, Biography & Autobiography / Historical, Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists, Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Fiction / General, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Education Studies (EDST)), Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Black/African American (BLCK))