The Brown vs. Board of Education Doctrine states, " We conclude in the field of Education the doctrine of " separate but equal" has no place separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. THIS REQUIRED THE DESEGREGATION OF SCHOOLS ACROSS AMERICA. Melba Patillo Beal's was one of the nine students that were chosen to intragate Central High School in 1957. She kept a diary of all her thoughts while intragation was being carried out. Almost forty years after the fact she decided to tell her story by writing the book Warrior's Don't Cry. Melba Beals gives us a history lesson and as true a story of coming age in America at a certain time and place as one could hope to find. The title Warrior's Don't Cry came from her grandmother's saying to !
             her, " Everybody's a warrior on the battlefield for the Lord", and she used to sing a song, " I'm on the battlefield for my Lord". And so it comes from that, from her singing, and from her experience she had with the 101st Airborne, the soldiers who were warrior's, who came down to guard the nine of them when they were going to school at Central High School. The setting was Little Rock, Arkansas, Central High School. 1957 was the year; it was like a major bastion of white segregation in the South because it was ranked among the top high schools in the country. And it was where the elite children of Little Rock attended school. And it was, one believes, the last place they would have wanted black children come. And in order to stay there, get there, and be there, President Eisenhower, indeed intimately had to send soldiers- warriors. September of 1957, we're really talking about the...