Book Review: Warriors Don T Cry

The sound of beeping awakens you. With difficulty and trouble, you force yourself out of bed, your brain still not yet conscious. You get your uniform and proceed to head to the bathroom to get ready for school. Minutes pass by quickly and you are walking to school, lost in deep thought. For some time now, you have not yet listened to the world around you. As you gently shift your focus towards the world before you, your ears process the sound of anger at its highest level. You cannot believe what you hear. Vexation fills the air and you are now in an ever so dangerous environment. As you turn the corner, the sounds of the shouting get louder and louder. You can now hear loud running. Your eyeballs move to look around and then you see it
The Arkansas Little Rock Nine were 9 students that were chosen to start to the process of integration as a result of the Brown .v. Board of Education court decision. They were chosen to integrate to Central High, a previously white only school. This, however, did not come without its troubles. Many white people all across the U.S. were raged by the idea of integration and put up a fierce fight against the Little Rock Nine. Reading the book Warriors Don’t Cry, which is by Melba Beals, a member of the Little Rock Nine, I realized that the book was starting to inform my own understanding about injustice through its different perspectives in three ways: Showing me the difference that the Little Rock Nine made, displaying the amount of injustice despite the Brown .v. Board of Education decision, and lastly by opening my eyes to the pain African-Americans had suffered due to being
For many decades now, America has accepted integration. The many schools of today are safe environments for children of all colors and racial backgrounds. It is now completely normal to send your kids to a school where other kids come from different backgrounds. This is just one example of how much of an impact the Little Rock Nine made on today’s world. Warriors Don’t Cry also shows the difference between back then and today. On page 46, Melba is called by who she thinks is Vince but is actually a segregationist, who quotes, ”Melba, ……, I know where you live… Twelfth and Cross. We gonna get you tonight… ‘long about midnight,” which clearly shows the difference between the 1950s and today. There is a rare chance of this happening in today's modern world due to the fact that integration is now accepted. This leads me to my second point, the Little Rock Nine have made such an impact that schools such as universities often advertise that their schools have racial diversity. It is now promoted in today's society to live somewhere racially diverse or go to a school that is racially diverse, obviously showing the success of the Little Rock Nine. Going to my third point, the general reaction towards racial diversity has been uplifted tremendously. No longer do