Taryn ™'s review
Warriors Don't Cry (Archway Paperback) by Melba Pattillo Beals
Taryn ™'s review
rating:
recommended for: African-Americans or anyone into history
status: Read in October, 2007
rating:
recommended for: African-Americans or anyone into history
status: Read in October, 2007
I really enjoyed this book. I love reading this because it explains her personal feelings about integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. It talks about how Melba Patillo, one of the nine black students chosen to integrate the all white Central High School, in 1957, went through so much discrimination and injustice, from being assaulted in the hallways to being harassed at home, she and the other eight could never seem to get away from the hurt and pain caused by fighting for what was rightfully theirs.
I think people should read this book to see how black people were treated back then and how much they had to fight to give young people, like me, the equal rights and education that the white students got. This book is well written and seems like it's fiction but the cold hard truth about it is... it's not.
Read Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals, you shall not be be dissapointed.
I think people should read this book to see how black people were treated back then and how much they had to fight to give young people, like me, the equal rights and education that the white students got. This book is well written and seems like it's fiction but the cold hard truth about it is... it's not.
Read Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals, you shall not be be dissapointed.
