Warriors Don T Cry
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The author describes the threats and emotional abuse she endured from white student and adults along with her fears of endangering her family as she commited to being one of the first African American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Juvenile Nonfiction |
Author |
: Melba Beals |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Release |
: 2007-07-24 |
Total Pages |
: 240 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9781416948827 |
The turn of the twentieth century was a time of explosive growth for American cities, a time of nascent hopes and apparently limitless possibilities. In Children of the City, David Nasaw re-creates this period in our social history from the vantage point of the children who grew up then. Drawing on hundreds of memoirs, autobiographies, oral histories and unpublished—and until now unexamined—primary source materials from cities across the country, he provides us with a warm and eloquent portrait of these children, their families, their daily lives, their fears, and their dreams. Illustrated with 68 photographs from the period, many never before published, Children of the City offers a vibrant portrait of a time when our cities and our grandparents were young.
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Genre |
: History |
Author |
: David Nasaw |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Release |
: 2012-05-16 |
Total Pages |
: 256 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9780307816627 |
From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't 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 understand--and fight back against--the laws that told her she was less just because of the color of her skin. Includes photos and illustrations.
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Juvenile Nonfiction |
Author |
: Melba Pattillo Beals |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Release |
: 2018-01-02 |
Total Pages |
: 224 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9781328882127 |
BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist) Burt Award for First Nations, M�tis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner) Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only-not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves. In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family-from substance abuse to suicide attempts-and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. Number One comes at a time of recognition-by governments and society at large-that only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them.
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Biography & Autobiography |
Author |
: Bev Sellars |
Publisher |
: Talonbooks Limited |
Release |
: 2013 |
Total Pages |
: 227 Pages |
ISBN |
: 0889227411 |
At an event honoring Daisy Bates as 1990’s Distinguished Citizen then-governor Bill Clinton called her "the most distinguished Arkansas citizen of all time." Her classic account of the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis, The Long Shadow of Little Rock, couldn't be found on most bookstore shelves in 1962 and was banned throughout the South. In 1988, after the University of Arkansas Press reprinted it, it won an American Book Award. On September 3, 1957, Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to surround all-white Central High School and prevent the entry of nine black students, challenging the Supreme Court's 1954 order to integrate all public schools. On September 25, Daisy Bates, an official of the NAACP in Arkansas, led the nine children into the school with the help of federal troops sent by President Eisenhower–the first time in eighty-one years that a president had dispatched troops to the South to protect the constitutional rights of black Americans. This new edition of Bates's own story about these historic events is being issued to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Little Rock School crisis in 2007.
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Biography & Autobiography |
Author |
: Daisy Bates |
Publisher |
: University of Arkansas Press |
Release |
: 2014-08-01 |
Total Pages |
: 269 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9781610752473 |
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: Pages |
ISBN |
: 0780746848 |
In 1957, Melba Beals was one of the nine African American students chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. But her story of overcoming didn't start--or end--there. While her white schoolmates were planning their senior prom, Melba was facing the business end of a double-barreled shotgun, being threatened with lynching by rope-carrying tormentors, and learning how to outrun white supremacists who were ready to kill her rather than sit beside her in a classroom. Only her faith in God sustained her during her darkest days and helped her become a civil rights warrior, an NBC television news reporter, a magazine writer, a professor, a wife, and a mother. In I Will Not Fear, Beals takes readers on an unforgettable journey through terror, oppression, and persecution, highlighting the kind of faith needed to survive in a world full of heartbreak and anger. She shows how the deep faith we develop during our most difficult moments is the kind of faith that can change our families, our communities, and even the world. Encouraging and inspiring, Beals's story offers readers hope that faith is the solution to the pervasive hopelessness of our current culture.
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Biography & Autobiography |
Author |
: Melba Pattillo Beals |
Publisher |
: Baker Books |
Release |
: 2018-01-16 |
Total Pages |
: 208 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9781493413836 |
In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most powerful figures, Melba Pattillo Beals of the Little Rock Nine explores not only the oppressive force of racism, but the ability of young people to change ideas of race and identity. In 1957, well before Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Melba Pattillo Beals and eight other teenagers became iconic symbols for the Civil Rights Movement and the dismantling of Jim Crow in the American South as they integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in the wake of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob’s rope, attacked with lighted sticks of dynamite, and injured by acid sprayed in her eyes. But through it all, she acted with dignity and courage, and refused to back down. Warriors Don’t Cry is, at times, a difficult but necessary reminder of the valuable lessons we can learn from our nation’s past. It is a story of courage and the bravery of a handful of young, black students who used their voices to influence change during a turbulent time.
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Young Adult Nonfiction |
Author |
: Melba Pattillo Beals |
Publisher |
: Washington Square Press |
Release |
: 1995-02-01 |
Total Pages |
: 336 Pages |
ISBN |
: 0671866397 |
An eighteen-year-old chieftain's daughter must find a way to kill her village’s oppressive deity if she ever wants to return home in Warrior of the Wild, the Viking-inspired YA standalone fantasy from Tricia Levenseller, author of Daughter of the Pirate King. How do you kill a god? As her father's chosen heir, eighteen-year-old Rasmira has trained her whole life to become a warrior and lead her village. But when her coming-of-age trial is sabotaged and she fails the test, her father banishes her to the monster-filled wilderness with an impossible quest: To win back her honor, she must kill the oppressive god who claims tribute from the villages each year or die trying.
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Product Details :
Genre |
: Young Adult Fiction |
Author |
: Tricia Levenseller |
Publisher |
: Feiwel & Friends |
Release |
: 2019-02-26 |
Total Pages |
: 352 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9781250189950 |
"A new edition with a final chapter written forty years after the explosion."
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Product Details :
Genre |
: History |
Author |
: John Hersey |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Release |
: 2020-06-23 |
Total Pages |
: 208 Pages |
ISBN |
: 9780593082362 |