1/5/2024 0 Comments Warriors don t cry audio book![]() " I think I've read this before but loved it again. It provide the reader with good insight into the history of integration and the civil right movement in this country " - Trina, " Great read! Simple but sincere and inspirational. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.“Pitts passion to the story and makes us feel the immediacy of Beals’ experience.” - AudioFile “Beals looks back on her Little Rock experiences as ‘ultimately a positive force’ that shaped her life.” - Publishers Weekly “Beals, one of the nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, AR, in 1957, tells an incredible story of faith, family love, friendships, and strong personal commitment.” - School Library Journal Melba’s determination to do the right thing in spite of the tremendous amount of cruelty she faced is stunning.” - Children’s Literature “Melba’s first-hand account of her experiences gives a human touch to this highly political situation…Segregation, peer pressure, and the division of the country over the issue of integration really come alive through her words. “A profoundly uplifting-and also a profoundly depressing-account of the integration of Central High in Little Rock.” - Kirkus Reviews Pattillo, who laterīecame a reporter, reflected on those years in this searing memoir.” - Huffington Post Students long after the integration had been enacted. The nine students suffered physical attacks―Pattillo hadĪcid flung into her eyes in one horrific incident―and intimidation from other One of the most iconic moments in American civil rights history, but it was And, incredibly, from a year that would hold no sweet-sixteen parties or school plays, Melba Beals emerged with indestructible faith, courage, strength, and hope.īeals, one of the nine black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, AR, in 1957, tells an incredible story of faith, family love, friendships, and strong personal commitment. With the help of her English-teacher mother her eight fellow warriors and her gun-toting, Bible-and-Shakespeare-loving grandmother, Melba survived. Warriors Don't Cry, drawn from Melba Beals's personal diaries, is a riveting true account of her junior year at Central High-one filled with telephone threats, brigades of attacking mothers, rogue police, fireball and acid-throwing attacks, economic blackmail, and, finally, a price upon Melba's head. For Melba Beals and her eight friends those steps marked their transformation into reluctant warriors-on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard-opposition so intense that soldiers from the elite 101st Airborne Division were called in to restore order. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v.
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