Stuff about "Warriors Don't Cry"

• POV: Melba Patillo Beals, one of 9 black students who were to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas as part of an effort to induce integration.
• Beals suffered a lot of death threats, physical/verbal attacks, and hatred, all due to racism.
• At the age of 12, Brown vs. Board of Ed happens, but she doesn’t see any change.
• She and other black students sign up to go to Central High School.
• On the first day of school, her mom sends her by car and they get attacked by a mob but escape unharmed. Her parents put her on lockdown and while she wants to go to her old school, her grandma tells her not to give up
• 20 days after, they all go to school but are forced to leave as the mob broke through the barricades and were about to attack
• The next day, President Eisenhower announces his intent to use force to stop anarchy and enforce the law. The 101st Airborne Division arrive in Little Rock, and Melba’s guard is Danny.
• Danny protects her when someone tries to throw acid in her eyes
• Norwegian Reporter Mrs. Jorumn Rickets wants to foster understanding between both groups. It doesn’t work out.
• One day Melba gets attacked and held under scalding water in the showers
• Mrs. Bates’ newspaper gets financially ruined by white people, a State Attorney is threatening all NAACP officials in the state
• Dec. 17, one of the students Minnijean gets cornered by white boys and throws hot chilli on two of them out of self defense and gets suspended.
• When she returns, she gets a bucket of soup poured on her by a boy and attacked by him, and a fight starts up. She gets expelled and three white students get suspended. NAACP sets up a scholarship for her at a HS in NY
• Melba nearly gets cornered by her main bully Andy but a white boy named Link gives her his car keys and she gets out. They become friends. Melba learns he’s empathetic towards black people because of his dying black nanny Nana Healey.
• Apr. 16, a new judge replaces the judge for the Little Rock integration lawsuits.
• Melba’s mom loses her job because she won’t remove her daughter
• Segregationists try to prevent graduation happening, but Ernie (the oldest), graduates on May 27.
• May 29, the nine tour the northern states and get treated as heroes/celebrities while the integration efforts continue to deteriorate.
• Governor Faubus shuts down all of the high schools in LR to stop them from attending school.
• Melba’s grandmother dies, and next year the NAACP arrange for all the students to go to different schools across the states, with Melba going to California and staying with a nurturing white family
• She eventually goes to SFSU and graduates, has failed relationships with a guy named John and loses friendship with Link, has a daughter named Kelli, and goes to a journalism school.