Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals Tom Lichtenheld Her perspective on the volatile

Her perspective on the volatile era in which she grew up is thoughtfully expressed in powerfully effective verse

including Yale

The calendar hangs from a dowel with a gold cord for display

allowing readers to either believe in their reunion or dismiss it entirely

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Pattillo Beals Tom Lichtenheld Her perspective on the volatileThe landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. They ran the gauntlet between a rampaging mob and the heavily armed Arkansas National Guard, dispatched by Governor Orval Faubus to subvert federal law and bar them from entering the school. President Dwight D. Eisenhower