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Warriors don't cry, a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High, Melba Pattillo Beals

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Warriors don't cry, a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High, Melba Pattillo Beals

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eng

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autobiography

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non fiction

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Warriors don't cry

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electronic resource eBook

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Melba Pattillo Beals

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a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High

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In 1957 Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board Education, she was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. This is her remarkable story. You will listen to the cruel taunts of her schoolmates and their parents. You will run with her from the threat of a lynch mob's rope. You will share her terror as she dodges lighted sticks of dynamite, and her pain as she washes away the acid sprayed into her eyes. But most of all you will share Melba's dignity and courage as she refuses to back down

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Warriors do not cry

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