| Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Contributor(s): Beals, Melba Pattillo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0671866397 ISBN-13: 9780671866396 Publisher: Atria Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1995 Annotation: Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School in 1957. For Melba and her friends it marked their transformation into reluctant warriors--on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. Warriors Don't Cry is their riveting story. Optioned by Disney for a feature film. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 93044590 |
| Lexile Measure: 1000 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.34" W x 8.36" (0.66 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Arkansas - Holiday - M.L. King Day |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 18436 Reading Level: 6.5 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 9.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. Warriors Don't Cry is, at times, a difficult but necessary reminder of the valuable lessons we can learn from our nation's past. It is a story of courage and the bravery of a handful of young, black students who used their voices to influence change during a turbulent time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beals, Melba Pattillo: - Melba Pattillo Beals is a journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to integrate Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. |