Warriors Don't Cry (Abridged)

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Author: Melba Pattillo Beals

Pages: 226

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Publication Date: July 1,2007

Category: Prejudice



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An innocent teenager.

An urgent hero. Following landmark 1954 Supreme Courtroom ruling, “Dark brown v. That was also the entire year she became a warrior on leading lines of a civil privileges firestorm.

In 1957, Melba Pattillo switched sixteen. Plank of Education,” Melba was among nine teens chosen to integrate Small Rock’s Central SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. But through everything, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back off.

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 wounded by acid sprayed in her eye.

That is her remarkable story.


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