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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
by Melba Pattillo Beals
Chronicles the hell Melba Beals endured during the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR. This is a brutal read, made more brutal by the fact that Ms. Beals actually had to live this. I am at an utter loss as to how she persevered (even though she tells the world how, right here in this book).
The determination of Ms. Beals and her cohort is a thing both beautiful and terrible. In some places in this country, change does not happen unless it happens forcibly, and the haunting nightmare that this was helped paved the way for a world where kids grow up finding it normal to go to integrated schools.
A lot to be said here, but ... the most important thing is this: I hope all of these white people are burning in hell. I cannot, I cannot, in any capacity, imagine what kind of person is so disgusting, so hateful, so grotesque, that they inflict the abuse recounted here on a child attempting to learn.
The determination of Ms. Beals and her cohort is a thing both beautiful and terrible. In some places in this country, change does not happen unless it happens forcibly, and the haunting nightmare that this was helped paved the way for a world where kids grow up finding it normal to go to integrated schools.
A lot to be said here, but ... the most important thing is this: I hope all of these white people are burning in hell. I cannot, I cannot, in any capacity, imagine what kind of person is so disgusting, so hateful, so grotesque, that they inflict the abuse recounted here on a child attempting to learn.