Review Of Melba Beals 'Warriors Don' T Cry

Warriors Don’t Cry written by Melba Beals is an influential piece of American Literature. The book is a great tool that is used in schools as a history lesson for over two decades and for decades to come. We learn what Melba and the Little Rock Nine did for desegregation. Melba writes about her awful experience as the Brown v. Education ruled in favor of desegregation in public schools. As a historical context, it reminds society what they went through and how far we have come as society.
Warriors Don’t Cry piers into the thoughts of a warrior, fighting to integrate into public schools. Melba writes about her experience with kind white people, her influential grandmother, her dream of being able to be a normal girl again, and her patience

It proves that action is needed when a ruling takes place. The book shows the stark contrast of meeting with Bill Clinton and the action of then Governor Faubus. Meanwhile there were exceptions to the white hatred, example being Link, most whites were not ready to follow the Brown ruling. Melba goes through the build up, attendance, and then the decision to move to California. As seen through reporting of national civil rights and dis-justices provoked by whites, Melbas memoir, is literature that enlightens the reader on the struggles that were

Integrating public schools in the south proved to be dangerous but also necessary. Melba, through her memoir, gives a look into what she dealt with. Brown vs Education is hugely important but as it is learned through the book, implementation was another monster.
Segregationist represented immaturity and ignorance of the “old south.” Melba and the Little Rock nine represented the new, stronger, and mature country to come. Racism definitely still exists today but their voices have been quieter. With strength, innocent young blacks took the white segregationists “adults” power away.
African Americans, for the most part, feared the white man. Black people listened and obeyed codes that for years allowed whites to maintain the control of any social and political progression. Governor Faubus, the mobs, and the mean white kids operated still under that inferiority complex to keep African American down. The control of African Americans came from compliance of white southerners telling them they can't do something and enforcing with a threat of