Warriors Don't Cry
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 w
I think this book will maybe even change people's perspective on life as a whole. I found this book to be very useful as far as teaching what exactly went on during desegregation. After that she said she was goin!g to read the newspaper because she wanted to know when white men got angry. Danny was the soldier that was put in charge of Melba's safety while in Central High School. He explained to her that he would not always be there right behind her to p!rotect her; she had to begin to figure out how to handle the kids. The setting was Little Rock, Arkansas, Central High School. You don't have to go back to that awful school anymore. The heaviness of the mood was to her the first thing that made the site of her heart hurt, made her feelings sad, made her want to cry-the thought that someone would kill her, the treat of killing. While discussing the book with my father, he also told me that some of this was going on when he was in school. It is hard reading this book knowing that there was actual time when people behaved in that manner. At the age of fifteen most would have pulled out, but not this young lady. arrior's, who came down to guard the nine of them when they were going to school at Central High School. I do have to commend her on everything she has done and been through. When Melba had thoughts of discouragement, it was her grandmother that gave her the will to keep going.
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