The release date for the English version of 'Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High' by
Melba Pattillo Beals is Feb 1995. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
In this seminal personal narrative, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine, one of the most influential characters in the Civil Rights Movement, examines not just the pernicious impact of racism but also the capacity of youth to transform conceptions of race and identity.
Following the historic 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers integrated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957—well before Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech. This marked the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and the eventual deconstruction of Jim Crow in the American South.
Melba had a terrifying experience in which she was assaulted with lit sticks of dynamite, threatened with a rope by a lynch mob, teased by her classmates and their parents, and had acid splashed in her eyes. But she behaved bravely and with dignity the whole time, refusing to give in.