And warriors may not cry, but young girls do. Truly, after listening to this, I rather dashed off to see what else Pitts has narrated.Īll in all, this is a testament to the courage of children who were willing to stand in for the dreams of an entire people. We feel her terror, we feel her exhaustion, we even feel her dizzy crush on the boy of her dreams. Pitts does a stellar job with the narration, making Melba sound like a young but wise beyond her years, girl-one who is afraid but who can’t help but have a bit of attitude and speak her own mind. She thinks the hammering of a nail in a wall is actually gunfire. Warriors Dont Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rocks. Her own mother is denied another year as a teacher unless she pulls Melba from Central High. Warriors Twilight SummaryThe fifth audiobook in this second series.
She’s viewed as a rabble-rouser, stirring up a hornets nest, causing all to suffer from acts of retribution. She’s not invited to parties because she might attract violence to everyone around. I was constantly amazed by her wonderfully sharp comments, by her faith in God’s will.Īll of it comes at a price, even from her own people. How on earth could an adult do such things to children? Where is their shame? And of course, they egg their own children on.īut Melba is a fighter, and with the incredible strength and faith that comes from her grandmother, she is given the strength to endure, the strength to speak her own mind, even when there’s payback for that. It’s horrific what children can do to other children, but Warriors Don’t Cry shows adults at their worst. It does, but they can’t give him a reason to kick them out). Melba and her friends are entirely on their own, suffering abuse, suffering violence, suffering in silence every single day (They have to stay silent about what’s happening so as not to further fuel the Governor’s assertion that integration will cause a firestorm. They ran a gauntlet flanked by a rampaging mob and a heavily armed. Board of Education, brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. And she’s not even 16 when she’s enrolled and is subjected to unbelievable cruelty. Warriors Dont Cry - Warriors Dont Cry audiobook, by Melba Pattillo Beals. She has no idea that she’ll become one of the first group of black students to challenge segregation, to go to CHS, to be the object of hate, to be the bearer of an entire group of people’s hopes.
The only thing was, when asked the question, she answers that she would kind of like to go to Central High School-just to see what it’s like inside. Melba just wanted to be a young girl, no different from anybody else. Unbelievable! Filled with rage, violence. Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock’s Central Highīy: Melba Pattillo Beals / Narrated By: Lisa Reneé Pitts
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