"Warriors Don't Cry"

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This paper looks at the book "Warriors Don't Cry" which is the story of a young African American child who was one of the first who forced racial integration into the Little Rock school system. The writer analyzes how the book, which is written through the eyes of a child, helps people realize the stupidity of their bigotry.

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""We are not these bodies, we are spirits, God's ideas," Grandma India explained to Melba Pattillo Beals one afternoon as they tended Grandma's garden of four-o'clocks. "You don't want to be white, what you really want is to be free, and freedom is a state of mind" (6). It was perhaps those words of wisdom spoken to a child only six years of age that helped create the courage that would one day be needed by Melba to fulfill her destiny. Melba Pattillo would, ten years later, be among the first Black children to attend and help integrate Little Rock's previously all-White Central High School."

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