Warriors Don’t Cry

Melba grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas a town in which was in the south and was experiencing major segregation in the fifty’s, from rest rooms to schools. She starts out in the book telling how no black child is born knowing about segregation and that there is a whole race that is supposed to be superior to them. I strongly agree

Arkansas was going through a reconstruction period, but barriers were put in front of the reconstruction by many groups such as Mrs. Thomason’s segregationist group and even the Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus. The governor even went to the length of using the National Guard to keep the school segregated. The Rule of Law was being directed on what was wrong and right by the white majority that it is why it took two years to integrate central high.

Melba Pattillo was truly a warrior, but even though they were so many groups trying to keep black people out of central high, there was a lot of stigmatization going on once they got in.

Like I said before it was great that the schools were integrating, but Melba and the eight others still had to endure a lot of turmoil. Nothing, not even the 101st Airborne Division,

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