You are bidding on a signed copy of this Commemorative 40th anniversary edition of Warriors Don't Cry, by Melba Pattillo Beals. This book is not available in stores.

About Warriors Don't Cry:

In 1957, while most teenage girls were listening to Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue," watching Elvis gyrate and collecting crinoline slips, a 15-year-old Melba Pattillo was escaping the hanging rope of a lynch mob, dodging lighted sticks of dynamite, and washing away burning acid sprayed into her eyes by segregationists determined to prevent her from integrating Little Rock's Central High School. As a teenager, she was caught up in the center of a civil rights firestorm which stunned this nation and altered the course of history.

Warriors Don't Cry, chronicles her experience as a civil rights heroine. It is a snapshot of a Black family in the south living under a system of apartheid during the 1950s. Facing the oppression which would engulf them, they struggled, holding onto their dignity against overwhelming odds.

Among the rave reviews accorded Warriors Don't Cry:

"Riveting  monumentally important  a rare and eloquent behind-the-scenes look at the 1957 integration of Central High."

The San Francisco Chronicle

"There is no putting WARRIORS DON'T CRY down... in a plainly written story that reflects both the wisdom of the woman telling it almost 40 years after the fact and the crumbling innocence of the young woman who experienced it, Melba Beals gives us a history lesson, a civics lesson and as true a story of coming of age in America at a certain time and place as one could hope to find."

Judith Paterson of the Washington Post

"Vivid and moving."

Keith Dixon of The New York Times