Warriors Don't Cry
Subtitle: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: February 1, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780671866396
Subjects: Multicultural studies; School integration; Childhood Memoir; Biography; Biography / Autobiography; Regional Subjects - South; Biography/Autobiography; People of Color; History; Fiction / General; Arkansas; 20th century; Afro-American students; Little Rock
First sentence: IN 1957, WHILE MOST TEENAGE GIRLS WERE LISTENING TO BUDDY Holly's "Peggy Sue," watching Elvis gyrate, and collecting crinoline slips, I was escaping the hanging rope of a lynch mob, dodging lighted sticks of dynamite, and washing away burning acid sprayed into my eyes.