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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Warriors Don't Cry A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Author: Melba Patillo Beals
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. 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. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed Arkansas National Guard -- opposition so in...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780671866396
ISBN-10: 0671866397
Publication Date: 2/1/1995
Pages: 336
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3.8 stars, based on 17 ratings
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Book Type: Paperback
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A moving and memorable memoir of what it was like to be one of the "Little Rock Nine". Highly highly recommended. Something everyone should read to understand the reality of the civil rights movement and school desegregation.
reviewed Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High on + 5 more book reviews
This is a very heartwrenching and enlightening book on the desegregation of schools.
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Great account of an event during the civil rights movement.


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