Warriors Don't Cry

In 1957, Melba Pattillo was 16 years old. It was the year when she became a fighter at the forefront of civil rights storm. After the 1954 Supreme Court 's ground - breaking decision after Brown v. Board of Education, Melba became one of the nine teenagers who chose to consolidate Little Rock Central High School.

In her painful suffering, Melba was ridiculed by her classmates and their parents, threatened with a mob rope, attacked with an explosive stick which ignited, and injured the acid in her eyes It was. But through all these, she acted with dignity and courage and refused to retreat.

Melba Pattillo Beals's book "Warriors not cry" explains the reaction and emotion of racial hatred and discrimination received with other eight African-American teenagers in Little Rock. Arkansas was abolished during apartheid in 1957. She talks about 9 students from the age of 16 and starts to write a diary until she is the last few days of Little Rock's Central High School. - In her memoir of "Warriors do not cry", Melba Pattillo Beals was one of the top 9 black students to receive education at a comprehensive white school I mentioned her experience. She and her friend, also known as "Little Rock Nine", in addition to the President of the United States also caused support and criticism from their families, friends, community members and troops.

On the day of the end of the visit, when the family lined up to escort through multiple locked doors, a 10 - year old boy with striped polo shirts cried and cried standing next to his mother. She approached him, but the boy did not stop. He cries in a quiet ocean, he does not think about the coast. However, since they lived in Florida 1000 miles away, Sing did not see them in five years. He and the other prisoners expressed disappointment with how long the prison authorities despised their official policy they tried to place prisoners in facilities within 500 miles of their home. Shing authorities should let their families reunite as much as possible, Mr. Shing said.

When Melba and another 84-year-old black man and woman returned to their home Arkansas to meet the then Bill Clinton Governor, the warriors did not cry. Narrator and author Melba explained that the group called Little Rock Nine is visiting the Central High School in Little Rock. As a teenager in 1957, nine of them were the first African-American students to integrate into school. - Warriors do not cry: to destroy memoirs of war to integrate the small stone brown and the board of education theory: "We draw conclusions in the field of education," separation doctrine, equality " There are no places that are not essentially equal.