Central High School

Melba Pattillo and eight other African American students became soldiers on the battlefield of equality at a young age. When entering Central High School, Melba had to become a warrior in order to survive the school year. She had to be a warrior to fight for what she believed in and not give up. Melba created a warrior inside herself to rise above the pressure and scrutiny from her peers, community, and nation. She was a warrior of civil justice and equality for the future generations of kids who

Transferring to a new school is a hard experience for a normal kid alone. Going to a new, all-white school as a black student in 1957 makes the experience even tougher. In the memoir Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, Melba and eight others, known as the Little Rock Nine, risk everything in order to attend their local high school, Central High. Living in Little Rock, Arkansas, these students take the courageous step to attend an all-white school in a society filled with segregationists.

and Melba Pattillo Beals worked alongside eight others to help integrate Little Rock’s Central High School, strengthening her inner warrior. These three individuals devoted their lives to causes that are imperative, and although they all had their separate fashions of standing up, they all were fighting for the same cause: human rights.     Mother Jones was a passionate person who strived to accomplish her central goal of abolishing child labor. Mother Jones passionately tells a reporter, ‘“I love

the age of 16 integrated into Little Rock's Central High School with nine others that were chosen to integrate as well. The teens had no power, to be able to even make it into the school the government had soldiers escort them in you can find this evidence on page 94, 95 “ groups of soldiers on guard with line at intervals several feet apart I got a group of twenty or more running at Breakneck speed up and down the street in front of Central High School their rifles with bayonets the pointed straight

Melba Pattillo Beals is the main character in this book. She was fourteen years old when she attended Central High in Little Rock, Kansas with eight other black students. While Melba attended the high school, she was spat on, slapped, and several sickening insults would be shouted at her. These actions led to Melba to not even fight back but to simply just say thank you and walk away. This was one of the factors that built up her courageous attitude that stuck with her throughout the rest of her

segregationist had in store for me.” Warriors Don’t Cry,page 163. Melba showed determination and strength when faced with a trying situation, because she knew that the conditions would never improve if they complied. “‘My friends and I will leave school if we don’t get adequate protection. It’s simple as that.’ I told him. The others were obviously as angry as I was as they chimed in with their complaints. They voiced their agreement that something had to be done immediately.” Warriors Don’t Cry

Pattillo Beals, about her experience integrating a segregated school. At the time, she was a fourteen-year-old African American girl, who was among one of the first African Americans to attend an all-white high school called Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, along with nine other children like her. When she was given the opportunity to attend, she immediately leaped at the chance, but soon realized that integrating the high school was going to be a lot tougher than she would have thought

Warrior’s Don’t Cry is a non-fiction novel based on the life and written by Melba Beals. Melba is a junior in high school, who has dealt with racism, segregation, and feeling worthless compared to the white people around her. Without knowing the full consequences, Melba signed her name up to attend Central High School after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1954. From that moment, her life was turned upside down with threats, harassing calls, and violence from segregationists

African American, high school students integrates Central High School. Only eight of the nine that begin at Central High lasted for the full year. Melba and her eight friends face new wars every day. These are some of the traits she uses to survive her year and overcome her enemies at Central High School. Melba relies on her courage, faith, and not only her physical strength, but her mental strength as well. Melba uses courage in many different ways throughout her school year, for example,

Little Rock 9. She arrived at Central alone on the morning of September 4, 1957. All nine students were supposed to meet and go into the school all together but their meeting place was changed the night before. Her family did not have a phone and Elizabeth never got the message. When she got dropped off the next morning she was alone. She attempted to walk onto the campus twice but was turned away by the Arkansas National Guard. She didn’t end up graduating from Central but she was lucky and had taken