Warriors don't cry : a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High /
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 of Education, she was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School....
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pocket Books,
1994.
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| Summary: | 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 of 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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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0671866389 9780671866389 0671866397 9780671866396 |