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Warriors Don't Cry
- A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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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 intense that soldiers from the elite 101st Airborne Division were called in to restore order. 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.
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. With the help of her English-teacher mother; her eight fellow warriors; and her gun-toting, Bible-and-Shakespeare-loving grandmother, Melba survived. 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.
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"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)
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- Tony Ogundeyi
- 27-03-24
A Harrowing Account of The Racial Persecution of Nine American School Kids.
I'd no idea of the extent of the horrors, fears & violent racism those brave, courageous nine kids enjured; kids in terror of being lynched by 'the mob'.
Nor had I realised there'd been such hatred towards them. They lived through hell.
Yet another disclosure of America's shameful past racial injustices.
We (Humanity) have still some way to go but thank God those dark days are behind us.
This book is so vividly well written & read, at times I felt I was right there in the thick of it, then from my safe, observatory perspective finding myself being deeply & emotionally touched & moved.
Ultimately, this book carries a message of Love, Faith & Forgiveness. And, Love wins the day.
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