Warriors Don’t Cry: Integration In Little Rock's Central High School

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Rock went. Melba was always abused and picked on at
school. Her grandmother told her to be a warrior and not to cry, because
warriors don’t cry.
In the South, people were not treated equally in the 1950s. Jim
Crow laws stated that people were “separate but equal”, but that was not
the case. Finally the government decided that separate was not equal. So
they decided to integrate one of the best schools in the country. That
school happened to be in Little Rock, Arkansas where Melba Pattillo Beals
lived. There, whites hated blacks and blacks hated whites. There were
special restroom, restaurants, and schools for colored and whites. In
the North it was very different, everybody treated each other equally.
When Melba visited the North the summer before she entered Central High
School, she wished that the south would be like the North and she
wouldn’t have to go through the harassment.
Warriors don’t cry also means warriors don’t give up. Melba did not
give up, even though she ...

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