raising abridged warriors integrate

books:

Today's Best Nonfiction, Warrors Don't Cry, Nixon A Life, Esther, Raising Lazarus Volume 32
Readers Digest Melba Pattillo Beals Jonathan Aitken Leonard Sanders Robert Pensack Dwight Williams

Readers Digest, 1995

Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

122 reviews
Melba Pattillo Beals

Washington Square Press, 1995

Well-Written Must Read!
I read Warriors Don't Cry for school, and when I began reading it, I knew I would enjoy it. Yes, I enjoyed it, but it is actually very terrifying to read. Everything that Beals writes is based on fact, and it is very terrifying to imagine that this is what she and the other young black students faced when segregating into an all-white school. This is a must-read, and is a well-written, ...

White Is a State of Mind: A Memoir

6 reviews
Melba Pattillo Beals, 1999

White is a State of Mind
"We were concerned about much more than breathing- we were trying to save our lives- racing from room to room, slamming our windows shut and locking them as fast as we could." Melba Patillo Beals writes the story of her life, and what she had to go through everyday, as a result of her being one of the strong teenagers that integrated Central high in the year 1957. This book, the sequal to ...

Warriors Don't Cry: Abridged

1 review
Melba Pattillo Beals

Perfection Learning Prebound, 1995

Heart Breaking
I read this book right before entering the 10th grade. It was so sad. This book hits close to home. I was sad to find out that theese nine kids were tortured just for going to school. I am very grateful for reading this book because I look back and i am proud that a girl like me was a true warrior and she never gave up. She stood firm when she barely had any support from any one. I am proud to ...