Warriors Don't Cry
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Last published Thu, Jan 16, 2020
IN 1957, Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. that was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. Melba was one of the nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.
Throughout her harrowing ordeal, Melba was taunted by her schoolmates and their parents, threatened by a lynch mob's rope.
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