Warriors Don't Cry

ISBN-13:	9780671866396
Publisher:	Atria Books
Publication date:	02/01/1995
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	44,930
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	1000L (what's this?)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

In 1957, well before Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education.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.