Melba Beals

Recounts the events as remembered by one of the first nine Black students

Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock

Warriors Don't Cry

Rachel Braithwaite

Melba Pattillo Beals

A special abridged young reader's edition of the vivid, gripping story of a teenager's historic battle for integration.

The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

The author describes the threats and emotional abuse she endured from white student and adults along with her fears of endangering her family as she commited to being one of the first African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.

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Melba Patillo Beals

An abridged young reader's edition of the vivid, gripping story of a teenager's historic battle for integration.

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Jenna

One of the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School in 1957 offers an account of her ordeal and of the 1987 "reunion" hosted by then-Governor Bill Clinton. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

Warriors Don't Cry Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock

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