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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High -- Melba Pattillo

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Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School in 1957. For Melba and her friends it marked their transformation into reluctant warriors--on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. Warriors Don't Cry is their riveting story.

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