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Summary Of Warriors Don T Cry Melba Beals

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Melba Beals memoir presents heroic detailed components about the integration of Central High. In chapter 4, of Warriors Don't Cry, Melba Beals gives a detailed description of her first day integrating Little Rock Central High School. While driving to school Melba had heard about the large crowd of segregationist that had gathered outside Central High School. When Melba arrived at school she describes how she saw “In the distance, large crowds of white people were lining the curd directly across from the front of Central High…stretched for a distance of two blocks along the entire span of the school"(Beals 37). Melba's use of details allows the reader to visualize an angry mob of white people trying to attack the African American students.

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