Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High Free Audiobook Download by Melba Pattillo Beals

In the early 1950's, Melba Pattillo Beals was in her first year of high school when she attended Little Rock Central High School. What was supposed to be a time of celebration became a time of struggle and violence as Governor Orval Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to block the school doors and protect segregation. The integration of Central High School was spearheaded by Beals and other students who were convinced that there could be no progress without it. This book is about their struggle with racial injustice in America and its impact on one courageous teenage girl.

The book is an account of the fight for integration from the point of view of Melba Pattillo Beals, who led the Little Rock Nine, a group of black students who integrated Central High School in 1957.

Warriors Don't Cry recounts the true story of how Melba Pattillo Beals, a young high school student from Tennessee, worked alongside civil rights leader Daisy Bates and others to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Melba Pattillo Beals describes the events of her life that led to her involvement with integrating Little Rock's Central High school during The Little Rock Crisis in 1957. As a young girl, she was on the side of the desegregation. She had a difficult childhood, and in high school she became involved in activism and joined the NAACP Youth Council. Then, when she was eighteen years old, Central High School opened its doors to students of all races during the Little Rock Crisis. The first day of integration became known as "Black Thursday", and Melba found herself at the center of this day as she helped to integrate some black students into Central High School. Following this event, she went on to lead many other protests for civil rights including those

Lisa Reneé Pitts brings the story of Melba Pattillo Beals' struggle to integrate Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas, to life. The audiobook reveals the emotional toll and physical violence that accompanies this fight. This memoir is a study on what it means to be an American during one of the most important moments in our nation's history.

The life of Melba Pattillo Beals, the author of Warriors Don't Cry. This audiobook is narrated by Lisa Reneé Pitts and it tells the story of one woman's efforts to integrate Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas during the 1960s.