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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
this is probably one of the most moving books i have ever read.
I will say I was a tad sceptical because memoirs can be hit or miss but I highly recommend this memoir to anyone regardless if you know about Little Rock or not. I studied the civil rights movement including Little Rock last year and this book has singlehandedly travelled MILES from what a textbook could teach you. The advice given to young Melba by Grandma India is timeless and the family dynamic in this was so raw I really felt I understood each member's actions and justifications. Beals's writing is beautiful, and even the extracts from her diary during integration share this quality too, which I genuinely think is rare. This is a book, that though has taken me almost two months to read thanks to my annoying mood reading, I have barely stopped thinking about it.
I will say I was a tad sceptical because memoirs can be hit or miss but I highly recommend this memoir to anyone regardless if you know about Little Rock or not. I studied the civil rights movement including Little Rock last year and this book has singlehandedly travelled MILES from what a textbook could teach you. The advice given to young Melba by Grandma India is timeless and the family dynamic in this was so raw I really felt I understood each member's actions and justifications. Beals's writing is beautiful, and even the extracts from her diary during integration share this quality too, which I genuinely think is rare. This is a book, that though has taken me almost two months to read thanks to my annoying mood reading, I have barely stopped thinking about it.