num_pages: 312
description: In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity.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.
language: English
title: Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
titlecomplete: Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
characters: Melba Beals
genres: Historical, History, School, Biography, Memoir, African American, Biography Memoir, Read For School, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 14858
places: Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
category: Distinguished Honor
publisher: Washington Square Press