Warriors Don T Cry Book Review

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Book review: warriors don’t cry
Melba Beals wrote warriors don’t cry telling the story about her and nine other students were the first African-American students to be integrated into the central high school. fighting for their freedom and education, putting their life in dangers everyday for going to a white people high school were most teenager spend their time having fun, they were escaping the hanging rope and other harm way the white mob would use to stop them from going to central high school, But just like a warrior they kept fight for better education and equal right and never shade a tear because warrior don’t cry.
Bealis started a book with moment form the present as an alumni going back to central high school for reunion, to the
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Every time she think about quitting everything and go back to her old school she would remember her mother and who hard she is working to provide everything they need, And her grandmother consist reminder to stay strong and whenever she is in need she should pray for god because god never leave someone in need alone. Her mother told her a store about a man who is in graduate school who was trying to integrate the law school. In class room he is forced to sit confined by white picket fence erected around his desk and chair. He would sometime stumble over it and other white classmate would stumble over it to. But still it would be there each day he arrives, keeping him separated but equal .The white folks would allow them in small department to integrate. Even so the keep getting calls from people warning them not to push any further to integrate the university but her mom kept going to her meeting and classes. With everything going on Bealis kept going to school and when new school year come around they offered them to go back to the same school, but one of the had to sacrifice something and then turn out that her mother would lose her teaching job if she did not take Melba out of the school. The NAACP has decided to save them from losing jobs they would ask people in NAACP chapters across the country to take in the students. Melba is sent to California, to a white

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