Warriors Don't Cry The book, Warriors Don't Cry, is a sad, yet encouraging story of a courageous young lady. At the age of thirteen Melba Patillo Beals volunteered to integrate Central high in Little Rock, Arkansas. On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that separate schools for whites and blacks were illegal. Melba often dreamed of seeing the inside of Central High. The best education and preparation …showed first 75 words of 1533 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1533 total…I think it may have been worse. Hopefully, no one will ever have to experience anything like that ever again. I am also proud of those select white students who were actually nice to the black students. Link was one of those white students who wasn't afraid to stick up for blacks but did it anyway. I give those nine black students credit because I do not think I could have endured what they endured.