Warriors Don T Cry (NAACP)

The author's purpose for writing Warriors Don't Cry is tell a personal story of her own to remind the world when peace was no option for a black person. She wanted to have her story out in the world for others to learn and read from. Melba went through much in her life only because she was born different. While normal white teens had fun with boyfriends and went to parties, she went through a mental and physical war. Melba wrote her story with no sugar coating, she gave what she felt and what she did. She wanted to write a story where it would give the reader a glimpse at the life a colored person once went

There have been many people who have changed history for the better. Melba Patillo Beals is one of those people. Her efforts to integrate Central High School made her a very important person in the fight for equality. Despite the hardships and discrimination that she had to deal with, Melba persevered and integrated Central for a year. She sacrificed her normal life for the furtherment of equality. In “Warriors Don’t Cry,” Melba Patillo Beals presents the idea that emotional strength, faith, and determination are necessary character traits in the fight for equality.

As Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had”. (King) The conflicts met between the Civil Rights Movement protesters and the white people of the South were incredibly gruesome. While peace and equality for African Americans was the driving force of the protests, violence and inhuman resistance was the force of the white people. In the March Trilogy Books, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, and in the

At the march on Washington, he 1963 he delivered his “I Have A Dream” Speech. In this speech he says “I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.”(http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm)the. The people that helped him overcome this obstacle were the members of the Civil Rights Act. They overcame this obstacle by protesting, even though they got in trouble, and they were tortured. They were still hated by many but they still fought for

Marches now and then can either be very harsh and brutal or good going and non-violent. Assuming people of color heard you and supported you; you could have a speech with millions of people sometimes. Boycott’s were put on black’s from doing certain things but black’s fought against it and now they can do whatever or go wherever they want without having to be scared that they might get beaten up or killed.

Imagine being attacked by mobs on the way to school. Melba and Boston school students are experiencing this. In the book, Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba is part of the Civil Rights Movement by being one of the first black students to integrate into Central High School. She experiences abuse and hate from people who do not want her to come into Central High. In “Selma and Civil Rights”, 600 civil right marchers march through Selma and towards Montgomery. The governor tries to stop the march, while the President tries to help and encourage the marches. The goal is to give African Americans the freedom to vote. “‘It Was Like A War Zone’: Busing Boston” is about the Boston Public Schools allowing integration. Black students on their way to school are

Uprisings against police crimes, protests on Israeli occupation, lobbying for gay rights, striking for a higher minimum wage, etc. are all fought with the same fist and same power: that of the people. Just in recent months, black activists in Chicago have traveled with student groups to Palestine in opposition of apartheid, and Palestinians marched beside the black community during the Black Lives Matter movement. Political prisoner Angela Davis lead the community hand-in-hand with Rasmea Odeh, a contemporary victim of political repression. The same can be said about so many other organizations and communities here in Chicago. The struggles of so many across the globe are unified here in Chicago by the thread of tyranny and injustice. This unifying thread only serves to symbolize how struggles belong to no single body or group of people, but are obstacles that must be overcome by the global

Strong people with the amour of God doesn’t give up on the battlefield , which means Warriors Don’t Cry. The little rock nine of Central High School have to face racism, discrimination , and hatred every day. The teens have to remember their plan and purpose every minute of the hour in Central High to end segregation but the mission isn’t as easy as it seems. There are most people who doesn’t want segregation to end they feel that African American and Caucasians are different and should be treated differently. But while these African American teens are trying to change the world they are protected by the armor of God to make a change.

Surely it does not mean pleasing every person, every group, or every organization. For a peaceful resistance to positively impact a society, the oppression has to be cut at the roots. The end result of a peaceful resistance should always be justice, and should always end in an oppressed group no longer being oppressed. Which might be why there is still a peaceful, and sometimes not so peaceful, resistance to racism. What the peaceful resistance of people like Martin Luther King Jr., James Forman, and Elie Wiesel resulted in was a new knowledge to the people. The long and laborious tasks they and others fighting for equality performed led to a world where people of color could attend college, and could experience the freedom of equal opportunity. These people, these people advocating for peaceful resistance, changed the world for minority groups. As we know, minority groups make up a large part of many free societies, but have historically had very little opportunity compared to that of their oppressors. Any peaceful resistance that results in the end of oppression and the start of equal opportunity is making a positive impact that will continue to inspire change and growth within a

People of color would go into restaurants the laws prohibited them from going in and sat down, to protest that there should be no segregation. While breaking these laws they put themselves in danger and the ones around them in danger. In the end the peaceful resistance to the segregation laws did in turn accomplish the change in laws and created three new amendments, Although they did put many people in danger including themselves because of their actions. I do believe that “We the People of The United States” (United States Constitution preamble) have a say in what our government does and we do have the right to overrule the government if its power becomes too great. I also believe we should do so in an order that obtains the laws, because they are put into place for a reason even if that reason is hard to understand. My opinion would be that although peaceful resistance has been positive in history it has also been negative, and within a free society there are many ways of changing a law without breaking any. American citizens are educated on ways to change laws and they should go about doing so legally without breaking any

Peaceful Resistance has had its place in many societies around the world for centuries. Examples of this powerful political tool exist from the Roman Plebeians refusing to work in order to bring change to the harsh Roman consul to the notorious Indian Independence movement led by Mohandas Gandhi. Peaceful Resistance is not only effective through its influential and compelling tactics, but it is absolutely necessary when those in power refuse to acknowledge the issues in front of them. In order to advance anything, attention has to be brought to the issue at hand. Without people willing to be peacefully passionate, there will be no LASTING change. Laws are put in place to protect people, however when that protection discriminates or takes away

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “In any nonviolent campaign, there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action” (Letter from Birmingham Jail). It is absolute that society benefits from actions as such. The collection of facts to determine the reality of an injustice, brings knowledge to the individual researching the occurrence in depth and said person could then share their knowledge with those around them. Bringing true knowledge to fellow americans should always be considered a positive act, even if the facts being uncovered are hideous in nature. The second step of negotiation is a lost art of today. This is an essential foundational concept of performing a nonviolent resistance. Negotiating is what creates the healthy dialogue that

Lewis, however, highlights these people whose lives will be greatly affected by decisions about and fights for civil rights so that those who are marching remember that the fight continues and has real consequences. Therefore, Lewis’ remarks in the first paragraph demonstrate that he identifies with the concerns of grassroots activists across the country who could not attend the march, and he explains that he has doubts about this march doing enough if the movement does not focus more on the grassroots efforts of its members. (Ms. Pruden)

Nonviolent campaigns are much more representative in terms of gender, age, race, political party, and class. Civil resistance allows people of all different levels of physical ability to participate, including the elderly, people with disabilities, women, children, and essentially anyone else who wants to. Everyone is born with an equal physical ability to resist nonviolently. On the other hand, violent resistance is much more physically demanding and, therefore, more exclusive. Furthermore, the visibility of many civil resistance tactics, like protests or demonstrations, helps to draw risk-averse or hesitant people into the fray. Principally, nonviolent campaigns can solicit more diverse and active participation from ambivalent people. The inclusive nature of these nonviolent campaigns resonates fundamentally with the medium used to achieve their primary goals:

While this stands evident, the courses of action deviate in the completion of the movements. King had a focus on immediate demonstration to create equality in treatment of other people and to completely eliminate injustice from the world. He believed that some laws under a civil government needed to be demonstrated against because they were unjust and restricting on freedom. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (King 282). By comparison, Thoreau relayed a similar message of fighting the civil government but remaining civil with treating everyone like friends and with respect. He stressed that the government needed to earn respect from the people rather than having the need of the people to earn such treatment for themselves. Without the friendly treatment no respect is earned, so the people need to work to have cooperation. “I saw that the state was half-witted…that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it” (Thoreau 86) … When one pities their own government, there is clear proof that change is needed, and Thoreau could see this. In both the writings of MLK and Thoreau it is easy to see that both parties took a role in the opposition towards the civil government’s laws with a friendly