| 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
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Mass Market Paperbound - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: July 2007 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. |
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| 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 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| 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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