Melba Pattillo Beals

Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (1995)

Shortly after the United States Supreme Court prohibited school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, twelve-year-old Melba signed a list to go to school with white people. Three years later, she got her wish. She was selected with eight other African-American students to attend and...