Warriors Don't Cry
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- President Eisenhower
- Sent the 101st airborne division to help in the little rock nine
- Grace Lorch
- Woman who protects Elizabeth from the angry mob. Her and her husband organized tutoring lessons. tutoring
- Testament
- A profession of belief, or a will
- Ernest Green
- One of the Little Rock Nine. He was the oldest one and a member of Melba's church.
- Brown V. Board of Education
- Case which overturned Plessy V. Ferguson and desegregated schools.
- Elizabeth Eckford
- One of the little rock nine. Like others she was very serious about her studies.
- Minnijean Brown Trickey
- One of the Little Rock Nine and had been best friends with Melba for a while.
- Eye of the Storm
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- Thurgood Marshall
- A lawyer in the Brown vs. Board of Education case
- Marissa
- Crazy girl who saved Melba from being raped.
- Nana Healy
- Links black nana, thanks to her, he gains sympathy towards Melba
- Danny
- 101st airborne division; personal guard for Melba.
- Terrence Roberts
- One of the Little rock nine who gave funny and intelligent analysis's of all sorts of situations.
- 101st Airborne Division
- Sent in to protect the nine black students entering CHS
- Melba Patillo Beals
- One of the Little Rock Nine; wrote Warriors Don't Cry.
- Segregation
- To separate people based upon race.
- Conrad
- Melba's younger brother.
- Jesus Colon
- A Puerto Rican black kid who came across a struggling woman, and decided not to help her because he was scared she was prejudiced.
- Wednesday, September 4, 1957
- Melba's 1st day of school. She and the rest of the Little Rock Nine were threatened away by vicious mobs
- Mother Lois
- Melba's mom, also an English teacher.
- Central High School
- Sight of integration where nine black students were admitted.
- Little Rock, Arkansas
- Home of CHS, where integration had started with the entrance of the Little Rock Nine.
- The Tiger
- The Central High School newspaper.
- Grandma India
- Melba's spiritual grandma. Thought that destiny assigned special task for Melba due top birth date.
- The Arkansas Gazette
- The Arkansas newspaper that covered the story of integration at Central High.
- Andy
- One of the perpetrators, tries to kill Melba, is the 'ring leader' of all the bad things that happen to her
- Integration
- Incorporation of both races into schools
- NAACP
- The NAACP was and still is the National association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- William Jefferson Clinton
- A former governor of Alabama, treated Little Rock nine kindly unlike Faubus.
- Howell
- Melba's father who's divorced to his mother because he refused to meet his wifes request to finish college.
- Tuesday, September 3, 1957
- Little Rock Nine are rejected entrance into CHS by National guard.
- Link
- White student who isn't friends with Melba, but becomes friends thanks to his sympathy towards his nana healy
- Governor Faubus
- Sent National Guard to reject the entrance of the Little Rock Nine.
- Jane Elliot
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- Mr. Waylan
- Store owner who is usually nice to them but overcharges them on their bill and after Grandma India confronts him, he screams at the family.
- Vince
- Melbas boyfriend; they break up because of Melbas entrance into CHS.
- Eye on the Prize
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- Little Rock Nine
- Nine black students who would be admitted to a white school after integration ruling.
- December 7, 1941
- Melba's birth date, date of pearl harbor as well.
- Daisy Bates
- The Arkansas state president of the NAACP.