Warriors don't cry : a searing memoir of the battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High / Melba Pattillo Beals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beals, Melba.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beals, Melba.

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--History.

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.).

School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

School integration.

African American students.

History.

Arkansas--Little Rock.

African American students--Arkansas--Little Rock--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 312 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Washington Square Press trade paperback printing.

Distribution:

New York : Published by Pocket Books.

Place of Publication:

New York : Washington Square Press, 1995.

Summary:

Melba Patillo Beals was one of nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock, Arkansas's Central High School in 1957. For Melba and her friends it marked their transformation into reluctant warriors--on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. Warriors Don't Cry is their riveting story. Optioned by Disney for a feature film.

Notes:

"First Washington Square Press trade paperback printing February 1995."

"On the cover: Norman Rockwell's 'The Problem We All Live With' is a powerfully symbolic rendering of the school integration crisis. Printed by permission of the Norman Rockwell Family Trust."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0671866397

OCLC:

520721064