Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High - Couverture souple

Beals, Melba Pattillo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0671899007 ISBN 13 : 9780671899004

Editeur : Simon Pulse, 1995

Synopsis

Book by Melba Pattillo Beals

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

An innocent teenager.
An unexpected hero.

In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.

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.

This is her remarkable story.

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon Pulse
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0671899007
• ISBN 13: 9780671899004
• Reliure: Mass Market Paperback