Melba Pattillo Beals is the author of the bestselling WARRIORS DON'T CRY, which won ALA's Nonfiction Book of the Year award and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. She received a Congressional Gold Medal for her role in the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, AR. Read more about her at melbapattillobeals.com.
? "In a visceral and vital memoir, journalist and activist Beals (Warriors Don't Cry), who integrated Central High School as one of the Little Rock Nine, recounts growing up African-American in 1940s Arkansas 'under the umbrella of the rules and traditions of my oppression.'"- Publishers Weekly, STARRED review "A valuable addition to the stories of life in Jim Crow America."-Kirkus, review "Beals' recollection of white oppression and her rise above it will haunt readers. A must-read for teens."--School Library Journal "Young readers will be gripped by Beals' personal courage and determination to march forward for civil rights at such a young age."--Booklist --
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