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Summary: this is an amaizing book!
Review: this is an amaizing book! it gives you personal insight to the world of a person as real and vital as you are. you get a new point of view on your life and the history of the civil right movement from an insiders point of view. please buy this book and experience a lifetime (sounds like a sales-pitch, doesn't it? but really, get this book!)
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Summary: We must not forget!
Review: I grew up in a small northern town--a sheltered, middle-class white girl. I knew nothing first-hand of the struggles of black people. My only knowledge of the civil rights movement came from newspapers, television, and the occasional classroom discussion. I dimly remember the Little Rock integration fight. In reading "Warriors Don't Cry" what struck me is that most of us back then only saw TV clips of what happened to the children outside of the building. We never heard about the way they were treated inside the school, about the vicious outpouring of hatred to which they were subjected. It didn't much enter our consciousness. It was a faraway world that didn't seem real. I found this book to be one of the most moving, uplifting accounts of an individual and of her people, that I have ever encountered. It made me deeply ashamed of our culture, that we as a society denigrated and humiliated black people. We shall reap the bitter consequences of what has been done to them for decades to come, perhaps hundreds of years. But what stood out most brilliantly from this book was Melba Beals' steadfast faith in God, and in her family and friends. That is all we have against hatred in any form. As sad and depressing as this account was, I found it to be a wonderful, inspiring book. We must not forget the past; we must remember it if we are to overcome ignorance and hatred and move toward an enlightened society.
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Summary: I really enjoyed this book
Review: I thought that the book was excellent. I had to read it for a history class at Florida State University and just loved it. It is very depressing, but it made me look at myself and my own prejudices. I really would like to thnak the author for having the courage to write this book. I look forward to reading her other books.
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Summary: Warrior's Dont Cry
Review: This was one of the most beautiful books I have ever read. It is a powerful story that can change one's outlook on others, on life and on human cruelty and maybe even make the reader a better person for having read it. I recommend this book to any reader.
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Summary: An interesting book...
Review: I usually dislike biographies very much. However, this one I really liked. I actually read the abridged version, which is about 220 pages. Even with a topic I wasn't previously interested in, Beals' writing was clear and engaging. I would definately reccomend this book, regardless about how interested you are in the High school integration.
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Summary: A Great Factual Account from a Very Emotional Decade
Review: I usually hate reading a biography or something that is non-fiction; however, this account of Melba Beal's fight for integregation was one of the best books that I have ever read. The memoirs begins very slowly with a lot of background information and plain, old boring facts. After the the first few chapters, I wanted to throw the book away, I thought it was so bad. However, when I continued reading,the book just became more and more interesting and appaling. For example, the first day she enters Central High, she is spat on by a girl and is called manny racial slurs. It is amazing what this high school girl has to put up with just to go to school with white people. The life of Melba Pattillo Beals is quite astonishing. She wrote this vivid account very well and is perhaps one of the best non-fiction books that I have ever read. See my four stars up there, it should be changed to 4 and 1/2 because I reccomend this book to everyone yet it starts off slow and has some slow parts, so that is why I did not give it 5 stars.
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Summary: Understanding Racist Terror
Review: I truely applaud Ms. Beale for writing this story. She and the nine other students who intergrated Central High were true warriors on the battle ground to dismantle racial segregation and overt racism. Her book is extremely sad and at times will made me very angry. As I turned the pages of her book, I was hoping to read that she stood up to the racist White student terrorists of Central High and made them understand their barbarism and lack of humanity. But each day, she and her comrades chose to turn the other cheek. While I'm not sure I can agree with a non-violent philosophy in principle, I can understand that fear on the part of African people, the racist nature of white supremacy, and the realities of African people attending an all White school where they were not wanted would compel them to turn the other cheek instead of lashing back in anger. On the other hand, the lessons of Civil Rights and Black Power movement taught many African people that passive resistance and meekness does not always stop injustice. It's important that your enemy be to taugth to respect you as an human being. So by the end of her book, I was wanting more reflection by Ms Beale about what she has come to understand about that time back in 1957. Was sending young people with little or no training or preparation to wage battles against racial violence an effective approach? What role could the NAACP had played in preparing those nine young students in putting their lives on the line? What did Ms. Beale lose by trying to integrate into Central High? When she was not being spat upon, egged, and nearly killed, what did that school offer her that was so much better than her segragated African schools? I think these and other questions are important ones to discuss in terms analyzing the costs and effects of school integration for African people. Ms. Beale simply told us her story; we have to now understand what it meant back then and for today.
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Summary: An inspiring book
Review: Normally, I find efforts to make our own condition seem better by contrasting it with others in a worse position slightly abusive. It confers the status of "victim" on another, which envokes sympathy and empathy, but is not too helpful. Melba Beals' book, Warriors Don't Cry, should not be used to show how much more terrible things were for a young high school student in Little Rock than it is for nearly everyone's experience. It should be used as an inspiration that one does not need to accept the role of victim. In fact, a true warrior, such as Beals, will reject the status of victim and fight for her place in history.
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Summary: I was very enlightened by this book. It was AMAZING!
Review: It was very hard to learn what these students had to go through to get a decent education they desired so very much. they had to give up many things to attend Little Rock's Central High School. They also had to take so much physical and verbal abuse from the white students there. The author gives you an idea of what it was like to go through that every day. It was a truly wonderful book. I really couldn't put it down. I sincerely believe that Melba was a true warrior. Definanatly deserves five stars.
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Summary: The saddest book I've read
Review: All I have to say is that this book was great. It is the only autobiography I've ever read, and I have to say it was good. I had no clue what this book was about. Our teacher made us read it. I thought it was going to be boring. Instead it was sad and interesting. After reading this book, our techer let us watch two movies based on the Little Rock incedent. One view was from Ernest, who was the first black to graduate from LRCHS (or whatever high school it was). And the other was from a teachers point of view. And both movies were very different, I must say. But over all it was a good book, but it just seemed to be missing something, so I gave it four stars.
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