Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High

The landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas, but it was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to integrate Central High School in 1957. For Melba Beals and her eight friends, those steps marked their transformation into reluctant warriors - on a battlefield that helped shape the civil rights movement. Drawn from Melba Beals' personal diaries, Warriors Don't Cry is a riveting, true account of her junior year at Central High, from which she emerges with indestructible faith, courage, strength, and hope.