Warriors don't cry : the searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High by Beals, Melba 

BTSB Prebound(Simon Pulse, 2007)

BTSB #: 100232 Available

Dewey: 370.19/AAges: 12-18   
Lexile: 1000 F&P: Y

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Subjects: Beals, Melba Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) - History School integration - Arkansas - Little Rock - History|y20th century African Americans - Arkansas - Little Rock - Biography

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, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.