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[2018], Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B BEALS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Dont Cry comes a powerful, timely new memoir about growing up in the segregated South. Civil rights heroine Melba Patillo Beals puts readers right in her saddle oxfords as she struggles to understandand fight back againstthe laws that told her she was less just because of the color of her skin.
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2010, c2009., One World Trade Paperbacks/Ballantine Books Call No: 323.1 LAN Edition: One World Books tra Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the memoirs of Carlotta Walls LaNier, one of the nine students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in September, 1957, that describes the experiences and challenges she and the others faced during their years at Central.
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2010., One World Trade Paperbacks Call No: 379.2692 LaNier Edition: One World books tra Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1957, Walls and eight other black students--known as the Little Rock Nine--only want to make it to class. But their journey would lead the nation on a much more turbulent path. Walls writes an inspiring memoir that shines a light on this watershed moment in Civil Rights history.
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By Beals, Melbac1995., Juvenile, Pocket Books Call No: Historical 370.193 Bea Edition: Abridged ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Using the diary she kept as a teenager and through news accounts, Melba Pattillo Beals relives the harrowing year when she was selected as one of the first nine students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957.
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-- Warriors do not cryBy Beals, Melba1995., Washington Square Press Call No: HI-INT B BEA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: A personal account of the struggle to integrate Central High School in 1957 based on the author's diaries which describe telephone threats, acid-throwing attacks, blackmail, and threats by the segregationists on the author's life.
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-- Warriors do not cryBy Beals, Melba2007, c1995., Simon Pulse Call No: 921 BEALS Edition: Abridged ed., Simon Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Beals chronicles her harrowing junior year at Central High where she underwent the segregationists' brutal organized campaign of terrorism which included telephone threats, vigilante stalkers, economic blackmailers, rogue police, and much more.