Warriors Don't Cry

Suggested to me by Ms. Green, I am currently reading Warriors Don't Cry. This book is a memoir written by Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine. I am almost finished with the book and throughout reading it I often caught myself criticizing the author for being so repetitive. It seemed that every few pages she would mention answering the phone to hate calls, being cursed at, spit on, and screamed at; then I remembered that this was a memoir. I found myself getting tired of hearing the same thing over and over again and failed to realize that Melba Beals had to face the same repetitive treatment over and over again every day of her life. Where as I could put the book down and stop "hearing" this harassment, there was no escaping it for her. This was her life. This book is truly inspiring as it follows Melba Beals as a 15 year old African American girl and her fight to integrate Central High School. This book has truly touched me, and I would like to thank Ms. Beals for - as Atticus Finch would say - letting readers crawl into her skin and walk around in it as she, at the age of 15 took a stand against one of the most prominent inequities that existed during the 1950s and '60s, segregation.