warriors don't cry

Title: warriors don't cry
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warriors don't cry

Warriors Don't Cry By: Philip Wilsie Growing up as a teenager, Melba Pattillo Beals had to fight one of the most courageous wars in history. No, not a war that took place in the trenches of a battlefield, but a war that took place in the halls of an American high school—a war against color. Melba was one of nine black students who was involved in one of the most important civil rights movements …showed first 75 words of 1031 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1031 total…the civil rights movement. It is because of their struggles and the battles fought by Melba Beals and the other eight students that desegregation finally took place in Arkansas. At the end of the school year, the black students emerged from Central High victoriously. They had survived an entire year in the hostile environment of the school. They had opened the doors for other black students in the entire country to attend white schools. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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