Melba Pattillo: A True Warrior

Mamie specifically wrote this book to tell her son’s story, representing hope and forgiveness, which revealed the sinister and illegal punishments of the south. She wanted to prevent this horrendous tragedy from happening to others. The purpose of the book was to describe the torment African Americans faced in the era of Jim Crow. It gives imagery through the perspective of a mother who faced hurt, but brought unity to the public, to stand up for the rights of equal treatment. This book tells how one event was part of the elimination of racial segregation.

Melba Pattillo Beals was born on the same day of the Pearl Harbor attack. When Melba was born, she was detected scalp infection in which cause multiple medical complications. Her life was at risk due to the fact that she was African American and was not given proper medical care by the doctors. The doctors and nurses did not do much to save newborn Melba. Melba’s mother, Lois, took it to herself to help her daughter survive.

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.

Prompt #1 From the passage in chapter eleven, there are a lot of examples of symbolism that contribute to Lily and Zach’s relationship. The quote “Sometimes I would feel like I was hooked on the chain with them.” is a good example that resembles how Lily felt with the fish attached to her (Kidd 230). When those boys tied the living fish to Lily, she was completely freaked out and scared. When Zach explains how he knows what it is like to be hooked on a chain, it symbolizes his feelings towards Lily that she was not alone.

She tugged away thinking of the consequences she would leave her loved ones to. Her mentality, however, was stronger than her physical strength. This case is also demonstrated in Warriors Don’t Cry, an autobiographical novel written by Melba Pattillo Beals, in the struggle of defying the norms of a predominantly white school, while facing both mental and physical harassment. Melba and the others resisted this harassment only to become stronger in the end through defying. As defiance

In the Spike Lee film 4 Little Girls, it depicts the people and events leading up to the one of the most dreadful hate-crimes that occurred during the civil-rights movement in the city of Brimingham, Alabama. The wicked act was the church bombing which killed four little black girls respectively named Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. Within this city segregation was still a major factor just like in many other cities in the United States. For a child living in that time it was hard to comprehend how institutions operated and treated certain people due to the color of one’s skin. Many African Americans protested for their rights, eventually Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to protest and support them.

The documentary film Home of The Brave displays Viola Liuzzo’s real life experiences through her journey as an activist who opposed racism throughout the 1960s Civil Rights movement. She is also the only Caucasian woman to be murdered during the Civil Rights Movement. One aspect of the film that stood out was her courage and powerful intellect of justice. Additionally, it also connects the difficulty of how her five children have pursued to reveal the truth about her murder and also describes what exactly has been disclosed by the government’s official documents. In particular, the FBI contributed to her murder and also participated in the tarnished campaign in opposition to Liuzzo following the aftermath of her murder.

Imagine getting up everyday before high school and preparing for war. For Melba Pattillo Beals this fear was a scary reality. In the beginning of “Warriors Don 't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock 's Central High” by Melba Pattillo Beals, she begins talking about what it’s like to come back to the haunted racist halls of Little Rock Central High School. This was a time when civil rights was a major issue and the color separation between white and black was about to be broken. Melba and nine other students entered Central High School becoming the first African American students to go to an all white school.

An angry white mob surrounds Central High School as the National Guard surrounds the school. Despite the racist chants, Melba proceeds anyway. They are threatened and attacked by a group of white people, and see Elizabeth Eckford surrounded by an angry crowd with the National Guard preventing her from entering. They see that the National Guard has prevented her and 2 other students from entering. Back at home, Melba, fearful for her life, begs to go back to her old high school but India insists that Melba is not a quitter.

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.

An innocent teenager and unexpected hero is the best way to describe Melba who was a 16 year old teenager who dared to be a risk-taker and forever changed Arkansas and the United States. All Melba wanted in life was an education. Melba wanted to go to an all white school named Central High. She would be the first to integrate an all white school along with eight other African American children. Melba made a change in her community.

It’s surprising how a 6 year old can change history just by going to a school. There are two stories from two people, two perspectives, and two main differences. One story from Ruby Bridges the story on the inside and one story from a white man in the angry crowd. Ruby did not write her story to tell you about the horror of it all, Ruby wrote it to inform you more about racial diversity and integration on how hard it is to integrate a school at the time and to this day.

In time of war and great persecution of her people and her family, she bravely endured and even dared

Have you ever faced a life changing experience that has impacted other people and maybe even your country? Melba Beals, Jackie Robinson and Feng Ru have all faced life changing experiences and changed people 's lives across the nation in different but powerful ways. This essay will be discussing all of these stories “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Beals, “I Never Had it Made” by Jackie Robinson and “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel and how all of these people have faced life changing experiences and changed their country and lives. The first novel is “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Beals. Melba Beals was an African American hero because she helped more African Americans get education.

The ignorance of her opponents didn't stop her from being who she loved to be. In the end she would win her battles because she stuck to her morals and she believes that woman can be more than what the world thinks.