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You've gotta learn to defend yourself. Never let your enemy know what you are feeling.-- The soldier assigned to protect MelbaPlease, God, let me learn how to stop being a warrior. Sometimes I just need to be a girl.-- Melba's diary, on her sixteenth birthdayIn 1957 Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling,Brown v. Board Education,she was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. This is her remarkable story.You will listen to the cruel taunts of her schoolmates and their parents. You will run with her from the threat of a lynch mob's rope. You will share her terror as she dodges lighted sticks of dynamite, and her pain as she washes away the acid sprayed into her eyes. But most of all you will share Melba's dignity and courage as she refuses to back down.

ISBN-13

9780671899004

ISBN-10

0671899007

Weight

0.30 Pounds

Dimensions

4.25 x 0.75 x 7.00 In

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$6.99

Format

-

Language

English

Pages

240 pages

Publisher

Simon Pulse

Published On

1995-02-01



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