Melba Pattillo Beals

High School . In Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba Pattillo Beals tells her story of participating in the integration of black students. Melba was one of the nine students chosen to participate in this integration. Chosen out of hundreds of children, Melba was picked due to her grades and how good of a student she was. Even though she was proud of being picked, she also feared for herself because many people were protesting against her joining Central High. Though Melba was offered this great…

the agreement had approved. By 1957, the NAACP had registered nine black students named Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed and Melba Pattillo Beals to attend Little Rock Central High, who were selected on the criteria of excellent grades and attendance. On September 4, 1957, this group of students who were together named the “Little Rock Nine” had attended school…

Pattillo had grown up with segregation and the Jim Crow laws that were so prevalent in Southern states. “Nobody presents you with a handbook when you’re teething and says ‘Here’s how you must behave as a second class citizen.’ Instead, the humiliating expectations and traditions of segregation creep over you slowly stealing a teaspoonful of your self-esteem each day,” Pattillo, now Pattillo Beals, writes in her autobiography Warriors Don’t…

Don’t Cry the book written by Melba Patillo Beals, one of nine students who integrated Central High, sharing their journey with the rest of the world, on integrating such a school. One of her fist memorises at the school was being shouted at by her fellow schoolmates, “ ‘The niggers! Keep the niggers out!’ The shouts came closer. The roar swelled, as though their frenzy had been fired up by something. It took a moment to digest the fact that it was the sight of us” ( Beals 108). Ernest Green,…

school officials on the standards of attendance and outstanding grades. These pupils are: Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Minnijean Brown, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed, and Melba Pattillo Beals. On the first day of the 1957 school year, Governor Orval Faubus sent the Arkansas National Guard to Central High to support the segregationists protesting integration on the grounds of Central…

Brown vs Board of Education Imagine going to school day after day and constantly feeling inferior. In the early 1900s, African American teenagers had to feel this way every single day due to the fact that they were shutout and mocked. North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Arkansas all were challenged by racial segregation in public schools. “In 1954, large portions of the United States had racially segregated schools, made legal by Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which held that segregated public…

Courage Courage is something everyone has, whether they like it or not. People also use it everyday. Even when someone is doing something as trivial as walking down the street, they are being courageous because there is a risk of a piano falling on their head. No matter how unlikely that will ever happen is, it is still courageous. Everyone who has ever been on this earth has been courageous at some point in their lives, and it is amazing what some people can do. There are many people that can…

It is the underlying issue in every court case and disagreement between people all over the world; does justice mean equal treatment? Should it? The answer to these questions is a controversial one, but can be answered with the unpopular opinion that no, justice in today’s society and courts does not mean fairness. Justice should be the act of giving consequences to those who deserve, at the level they deserve, without any other factors and influences playing a role. This, unfortunately, is not…

He extends an olive branch to the person who murdered his sister, which is something most people do not dare to dream of. It reminds me of a part in Melba Pattillo Beals’ memoir Warriors Don’t Cry, Melba and her grandmother pray for the ability from God to forgive the man who tried to rape her when she was twelve. It takes a strong and kind heart to forgive those who wrong us, and both of these people had that heart. (92 words)…