Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock Saturday, August 1 2009.

• An innocent teenager. An unexpected hero. In 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down. This is her remarkable story.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Melba Beals: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Warriors Don't Cry: Searing Memoir of Battle to Integrate Little Rock Friday, July 17 2009.

• IN 1957, WHILE MOST TEENAGE GIRLS WERE LISTENING TO BUDDY Holly's "Peggy Sue," watching Elvis gyrate, and collecting crinoline slips, I was escaping the hanging rope of a lynch mob, dodging lighted sticks of dynamite, and washing away burning acid sprayed into my eyes.