Melba Pattillo Beals, Author Washington Square Press $15 (336p) ISBN 978-0-671-86639-6
The author was one of nine black teenagers who in 1957 integrated their high school despite violent retaliation. (Aug.)
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Melba Pattillo Beals, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-399-14464-6
Beals picks up her memoir where Warriors Don't Cry, her recollections of the 1957 integration of Little Rock's Central High School, left off. Few would dispute Beals's courage in risking her life to participate in the forcible integration of the...
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Melba Pattillo Beals, illus. by Frank Morrison. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $16.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-328-88212-7
In a visceral and vital memoir, journalist and activist Beals (Warriors Don’t Cry), who integrated Central High School as one of the Little Rock Nine, recounts growing up African-American in 1940s Arkansas “under the umbrella of the rules and...
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Melba Pattillo Beals, Author, Julie Rubenstein, Editor Pocket Books $22 (312p) ISBN 978-0-671-86638-9
One of the nine black teenagers who integrated Little Rock's Central High School in 1957 here recounts that traumatic year with drama and detail. Beals, who is now a communications consultant, relies on her own diary from that era and notes made by...
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