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Growing up as a teenager, Melba Pattillo Beal’s had to fight one of the most courageous wars in history. No, not a war that took place in the trenches of a battlefield, but a war that took place in the halls of an American high school—a war against color. Melba was one of nine black students.” Warriors Don’t Cry”, basically a collection of events in Melba Pattillo Beal’s life. The whole book revolves around her experiences as she integrated in to the all white school central high. Melba grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas a town in which was in the south and was experiencing major segregation in the fifty’s, from rest rooms to schools. She starts out in the book telling how no black child is born knowing about segregation and that there is a whole race that is supposed to be superior to them. I strongly agree