Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
by Melba Pattillo Beals
In this essential autobiographical account by one of the Civil Rights Movement’s... read more
- Grade
- 7-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
Year Published 1995
Word Count 56,413
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 1000L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.5
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 18436, 9.0 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--History
- School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional
- Young Adult Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African American
- Beals, Melba
- 20th century.
- Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
- Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics | Prejudice & Racism
- Young Adult Biography
- History
- School integration
- African American students--Arkansas--Little Rock--Biography
- Arkansas
- Little Rock
- African American students
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