Many events and people stand tall on the battlefield of segregation; Rosa Parks refusal to leave her seat, Martin Luther King Jr. famous “I have a dream (Struggle for Equality: Quotes From Martin Luther King, Jr., 1996)” speech, and countless other events like them. But one event that in particular stands tall as a distinguishing icon of the struggle against oppression: The Little Rock Nine. This group of black students broke down the barriers of segregation with non-violent methods; and despite
Little Rock’s Central High School and Melba Pattillo Beal, who was a part of the Little Rock Nine group, autobiography is a very vivid emotional writing. The most important piece of historical information that Beal’s Warriors Don’t Cry provides about the integration of Little Rock Central High School is the emotional toll that the integration brought on the students and their community. This is the most important piece of historical information provided by Warriors because it is told from a first person
never took place. Melba Beals says that “Governor Orval Faubus announced his refusal to support the integration of our state’s schools” (1994). To keep the nine students out of Central High School, he calls in the Arkansas National Guard, which is commanded by the State of Arkansas. Just imagine you’re going to school and upon arrival you see soldiers with guns trying to keep you out. One would not want to be anywhere near that school. On the first day that Melba Patillo Beals went to school, she
extremely strong values of persistence and hope, and learning about where these values come from can help us bring them out in ourselves. In the novel Warriors Don’t Cry, by Melba Pattillo Beals, Melba faces many hardships while attending Central High School. However, her motivation to continue attending despite the hardships come from many different sources. Melba is motivated by strong spiritual values and the belief that God is on her side. She is also motivated by her family and friends, including Grandma
are being denied. Intuitively, a human being has the right to enjoy life the same way any other individual does, but because of these different acts of discrimination, we see situations where blacks feel inferior to whites, children feel like they don’t belong in a child friendly environment and many more as we will discuss later in in this research paper. On the subject of oppression, a large number of people participated in protests, filed lawsuits, and started different movements to try and stop
“The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new” - Socrates. By this, Socrates means that people should not focus on the past, but instead focus on changing the future. Nonfiction literature often talks about change. The definition of change, as stated by Dictionary.com, is “the act of changing.” Some synonyms of change are, “alter”, “switch”, and “refine”. Some antonyms are, “stabilize”, “freeze”, and “fixation”. Without change people would