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Melba had many things taken away from her in her experience to going to Central High School. One of the many things Melba and her family had taken away from her was their freedom. On page 9 in Warriors Don’t Cry Melba's’ family was at the grocery store, the worker there overcharged them 20$ more than needed just because they were African American. Another thing that Melba almost had taken from her was her ability to see. “Whoever kept that water going in her eyes saved the quality of her sight, if not her sight itself”(123).
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” This quote by Eleanor Roosevelt says that to grow as a person, someone must first be scared. People also have to do what they think is impossible to grow. The Little Rock Nine, who integrated Central High, were scared for their lives every day of their high school experience at Central High.
There were and are a lot of racial issues in the United States today. The book “Warriors Don’t Cry” and the movie “Remember the Titans” are good examples of the racial issues that were going on back then, but later show how their town comes to respect everyone that lives there no matter their skin color or race. There was a test that white people took a to see if they were racist and the results were 90 percent of people show some sign of favoritism towards the white community. That information comes from the site usnews.com. There are still these issues now days and it will take a lot of work and time to be able to solve the problems completely.
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattilo Beals is a memoir about Beals experiences and her journey while integrating Little Rocks Central High School. She wanted to share her story about what it was like to grow up in the middle of the civil rights movement and what it was like to be one of the nine students who were the first African Americans to integrate a public all white school. During and after reading the book a few thoughts went through my head. First, was my reaction at the horrific things that were done to Melba by integrationist in Central High. For example, while in the bathroom stall a group of girls locked her in and began dumping paper that was light on fire onto her.
Moreover, The book “Warriors Don 't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock 's Central High” by Melba Pattillo Beals is a history packed memoir that every American should read. This book allows the reader to step inside the world of Melba’s childhood and the racism of the 1950s. That’s why this was written, to show the hardships of the Little Rock Nine and every African American going through pure racism. Melba writes this in a way that appreciates her courage and bravery to fight for her rights and to be treated with utmost respect. This book is an inspiration to anyone who feels rejected or accepted for who they are.
In the book Warriors Don 't Cry, Melba and her friends integrate into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Melba and her friends experiences troubles as she tries to survive integration. Beals reveals a lot of things that would gives hint to things that we see ahead. The book mainly focuses on the south, light has been shed on events in the north around the same time when the Little Rock Nine (Bars) integrated. This essay will make inferences that show how people in the southern schools will continue to be ruthless and slow acceptance for the nine and for the north schools how whites will except African-Americans more.
Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King Jr., in his letter from Birmingham jail, recounts the inexplicable horror of racial discrimination and its depressing effects on the African-American community in the United States. King’s purpose is to convince the clergymen that there is an infinite amount of reasons to why immediate action is necessary for this civil rights movement to work and to justify his actions. He adopts a disappointed and dismal tone in order to illustrate the specific inequity and prejudice against African Americans and to emphasize a call to action to the clergymen and anyone who reads the letter. King begins his justification for his unwillingness to wait by acknowledging the extent of the problem of segregation and by
Mike Kelly once said truth is a battle of perceptions. People only see what they’re prepared to confront. It’s not what you look at that matters, but what you see. And when different perception battle against one another, the truth has a way of getting lost. When Melba the narrator of Warriors Don’t Cry was at the age of 5 she was at the brinks of seeing the darks ways of segregation.
In the book, Warriors : Omen of the Stars, The Last Hope, the group of antagonists, known as the Dark Forest, is growing stronger. Those in charge of the group, plan to attack the four Clans, Thunderclan, Riverclan, Shadowclan, and Windclan. The four Clans want to live in peace, but they can’t with the threat of the Dark Forest looming over them, like a storm rolling in. With the possible danger, all of the Clans are uneasy and are wary of one another.
The Little Rock Nine pushed through and went on to pursue successful careers such as journalism, politics, and teaching. A particularly strong quote about the integration in Warriors Don't Cry was “ I felt such a surge of pride when I thought about how my people had banded together to force a change,” (Beals
The Warriors Ethos is a book written by Steven Pressfield, which was published in 2011. The book highlights a very rich history of warriors and their supporters alike. My goal with this paper is to draw some parallels between the examples in the book and what I took away as applicable to our lives as infantrymen In the United States Marine Corps. Chapter one is named “ Tough Mothers “. The chapter that stuck out to me most for giving perspective that I lacked prior to reading this book.
Melba Pattillo Beals was one of the first children to integrate in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her and 8 other students were chosen to go to Little Rock Central High School, which was a all white school. While there her and her friends where called the LR9( Little Rock 9). Melba was bullied and white students and parents tried to hurt her. They tried to burn her and kill her.
In “A Talk to Teachers” a speech given by James Wilden in New York City, 1963, he expresses his discontent with the “menace” that American society has become. He focuses on the purpose of education. How teachers are the hope of societies; teachers have the power to shape a student’s mind despite of how difficult this might be. Wilden presents his argument by providing a black child as an example. He explains how a black boy grows up in a society that rejects him and his parents.
They witnessed black people being unjustly treated, and they marched from their schools to show their protest. Quote- Freeman Hrabowski, a freshman at Ullman High School during the march, said, "I guess you could say I learned an early lesson from a Birmingham jail, if I had to do it all over again, I would do the very same thing." Commentary- Because of their innocence, the children knew to treat all people equally, no matter their skin color, but police and grown men destroyed it. This incident showed how true sagacity came from child-like innocence, but that society killed this probity and left adults staring at a world of mixed morals. Closing- While the adults handled situations as if they were in shades of gray, the children saw the right thing to do in stark black and white, only because their innocence had made them wiser than their
Racism: Should It Be The Reason To Abandon Students? Freedom Writers written and directed by Richard LaGravenese , based on the book, The Freedom Writers Diary, by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell .“At 16, I’ve probably witnessed more dead bodies than a mortician,” says a Woodrow Wilson High School student, before matter-of-factly describing a life in which gang and domestic violence are everyday occurrences.1 Racism , that is, basing on racial, people are divided into different social classes. Racism not only be the reason to prejudice students, but also be the root of violence. As Eva says: “schools are like the city and the city is just like a person, all of them divided into separate sections, depending on tribes.”
