Download Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High AudioBook Free
The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Dark brown v. Board of Education, helped bring the guarantee of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine dark young adults chosen to combine Central SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL in 1957. They ran a gauntlet flanked with a rampaging mob and a closely armed Arkansas Country wide Guard-opposition so powerful that troops from the top notch 101st Airborne Section were called in to regain order. For Melba Beals and her eight friends those steps marked their transformation into hesitant warriors - over a battlefield that helped form the civil rights movement. Warriors Don't Cry, attracted from Melba Beals's personal diaries, is a riveting true profile of her junior season at Central High-one filled up with telephone dangers, brigades of attacking moms, rogue law enforcement officials, fireball and acid-throwing problems, economic blackmail, and, finally, a price upon Melba's mind. With the help of her English-teacher mom; her eight fellow warriors; and her gun-toting, Bible-and-Shakespeare-loving grandmother, Melba survived. And, amazingly, from each year that would keep no sweet-sixteen gatherings or school works, Melba Beals surfaced with indestructible trust, courage, durability, and hope.
