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Warriors DOnt Cry
Title: Warriors DOnt Cry
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 2540 | Pages: 10.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Warriors DOnt Cry
In the book Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, the author describes what her reactions and feelings are to the racial hatred and discrimination she and eight other African-American teenagers received in Little Rock, Arkansas during the desegregation period in 1957. She tells the story of the nine students from the time she turned sixteen years old and began keeping a diary until her final days at Central High School in Little Rock. The story …showed first 75 words of 2540 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2540 total…courage when they decided to scale the walls of segregation and end the oppression of the white people in Little Rock. Beals was truly woman who fought hard and kept her faith in route to becoming a "warrior" and eventually a "champion" in the fight for civil rights.
Sources:
Beals, Melba Patillo. "Warriors Don't Cry." Pocket Books. (February 1995).
Cozzens, Lisa. "The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965." African
American History. http://fledge.watson.org/~lisa/
blackhistory/civilrights-55-65 (25 May 1998).
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