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Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
Contributor(s): Beals, Melba Pattillo (Author)

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ISBN: 1416948821     ISBN-13: 9781416948827
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2007
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Annotation: Originally published more than a decade ago, this searing account of the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock--an ALA Nonfiction Book of the Year--is written by one of the black teenagers chosen to become warriors on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places - United States - African American
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Prejudice & Racism
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2007279452
Age Level: 12-17
Grade Level: 7-12
Lexile Measure: 1000(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 4.97" W x 7.06" L (0.29 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Cultural Region - South
- Chronological Period - 1950-1999
- Catalog Heading - Social Studies
- Curriculum Strand - Social Studies
Features: Abridged, Ikids, Illustrated, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 18436
Reading Level: 6.5   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 9.0
 
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Publisher Description:
In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement's most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity.

In 1957, well before Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock's Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.

Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down.

Warriors Don't Cry is, at times, a difficult but necessary reminder of the valuable lessons we can learn from our nation's past. It is a story of courage and the bravery of a handful of young, black students who used their voices to influence change during a turbulent time.


Contributor Bio(s): Beals, Melba Pattillo: - Melba Pattillo Beals is a journalist and member of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who were the first to integrate Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas.
 
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