From the Bookshelf of Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
These experiences told by Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the nine black students who integrated Central High School during the 1957-57 school year, is such an important story. It’s definitely hard to read the long catalog of daily abuses she endured as a fifteen-year-old girl: the physical violence, the bullying, the assaults, the chants and shouting, the isolation from her former friends and from her peers, the guilt. The trauma of her experiences drove her to a constant state of anxiety and to t
...more
"My Central High School experience also taught me that we are not separate. The effort to separate ourselves whether by race, creed, color, religion, or status is as costly to the separator as to those who would be separated."
When the Supreme Court ruled against segregation in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, nine students were chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock. Melba Pattillo Beals was one of those students.
Drawing upon the strength of her family, her faith, and a few ...more
When the Supreme Court ruled against segregation in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, nine students were chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock. Melba Pattillo Beals was one of those students.
Drawing upon the strength of her family, her faith, and a few ...more
As a story, I think everyone should read this book.
The writing might not be most engaging, but the story most certainly is.
It is also very hard to read. I find it hard to accept how awful, cruel, and inhumane humans can be to each other. I said I would have thought the events were too horrible to be credible, had I read them in a novel. I don't understand the racism. I mean, if you saw black people as animals, you'd treat them as animals, but these people treat their black fellow humans worse t ...more
The writing might not be most engaging, but the story most certainly is.
It is also very hard to read. I find it hard to accept how awful, cruel, and inhumane humans can be to each other. I said I would have thought the events were too horrible to be credible, had I read them in a novel. I don't understand the racism. I mean, if you saw black people as animals, you'd treat them as animals, but these people treat their black fellow humans worse t ...more
Oct 13, 2007
Megan
marked it as to-read
Sep 11, 2016
CrystalIsReading on StoryGraph
marked it as to-read
Jul 19, 2019
Paulette
marked it as to-read
Mar 28, 2022
Katie
marked it as to-read
Dec 09, 2023
Toni
marked it as to-read
