Warriors Don T Cry Book Review
After the appeal was granted, chaos stroke throughout the city of Little Rock; the black community would endure many different types of abuse from the white citizens. The reason for it was that they were enraged of all the schooling their children had missed. The white population needed something to blame and the black people were the target for just about everything. A substantial amount of hate crimes rose as soon as the bill passed; Daisy Bates, the head chairman of the NAACP in Little Rock took lots of scrutiny for it. The main target for these hate crimes were the nine black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School. Their families were suffering much a bundle of pain, and it was a frightening time to be living there.
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Other than just another high school, it is known as a historic site and is used as the Civil Rights Museum where they pay tribute to the different event that took place in those years of the Little Rock Nine. Daisy Bates home, who was the head of the NAACP in Little Rock, is recognized as a National Historic Landmark for her contribution in the desegregation of the public schools in the area. Melba Pattillo as mentioned earlier wrote a book called “Warriors Don’t Cry”, it was a memoir of everything she experienced during the 1957-1958. She talks about dealing with hatred from an entire city, being tormented by citizens and her own student body. The book was very successful, and gives an insight view from an actual member of the Little Rock Nine. There were movies created explaining the variety of events of those days, such as Crisis at Central High in 1981, and The Ernest Green Story in 1993. These movies show the historic value that the Little Rock Nine presented in our countries history. Oprah Winfrey in 1996 had seven members of the Little Rock Nine on her show; it was reunion of them and those students who either physically and or verbally abused them, and those who befriended them. It was one of the most iconic moments in television, as the students apologized and showed their remorse of what they did back those days. It was truly a moving time as they described their stories and how it still felt so fresh, almost if it had happen just the year
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Other than just another high school, it is known as a historic site and is used as the Civil Rights Museum where they pay tribute to the different event that took place in those years of the Little Rock Nine. Daisy Bates home, who was the head of the NAACP in Little Rock, is recognized as a National Historic Landmark for her contribution in the desegregation of the public schools in the area. Melba Pattillo as mentioned earlier wrote a book called “Warriors Don’t Cry”, it was a memoir of everything she experienced during the 1957-1958. She talks about dealing with hatred from an entire city, being tormented by citizens and her own student body. The book was very successful, and gives an insight view from an actual member of the Little Rock Nine. There were movies created explaining the variety of events of those days, such as Crisis at Central High in 1981, and The Ernest Green Story in 1993. These movies show the historic value that the Little Rock Nine presented in our countries history. Oprah Winfrey in 1996 had seven members of the Little Rock Nine on her show; it was reunion of them and those students who either physically and or verbally abused them, and those who befriended them. It was one of the most iconic moments in television, as the students apologized and showed their remorse of what they did back those days. It was truly a moving time as they described their stories and how it still felt so fresh, almost if it had happen just the year