Warriors Don’t Cry: Integration In Little Rock's Central High School
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The battlefield is full of warriors fighting for their lives. They
will never know if they will live through this or any other day. That’s
exactly what happens in Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals. In
this book Melba experiences the integration in Little Rock’s Central High
School d ....
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.... public schools, Melba signed up immediately. She wondered what
it was like in a white school. Soon enough, she found out what it was like.
She attended one of the best schools in the country, where the upper-class
children of Little Rock went. Melba was always abused and picked on at
school. Her grandmother told her to be a warrior and not to cry, because
warriors don’t cry.
In the South, people were not treated equally in the 1950s. Jim
Crow laws stated that people were “separate but equa ....
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Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
