Melba Pattillo Beals
Auteur de Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
A propos de l'auteur
Melba Pattillo Beals is a recipient of this country's highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, for her role, as a fifteen-year-old, in the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She has been a university professor, a television broadcaster and news reporter, a radio talk afficher plus show host, and a writer for various magazines. Her award-winning book Warriors Don't Cry has sold more than one million copies. She lives in San Francisco and is the mother of three adult children. afficher moins
Crédit image: Spc. Jeffrey Stevenson, from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) escorts Little Rock Nine member Melba Pattillo Beals to the newly dedicated Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Visitor Center after the dedciation ceremony Sept. 24, 2007. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class N. Maxfield Operation Arkansas By The U.S. Army - arkansasUploaded by Gary Dee, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17792865
Œuvres de Melba Pattillo Beals
Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High (1994) 1,361 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1941-12-07
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Santa Rosa, California, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- San Francisco State University (BA - Journalism)
Columbia University (School of Journalism) - Professions
- journalist
- Prix et distinctions
- Congressional Gold Medal
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- Œuvres
- 7
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 1,858
- Popularité
- #13,852
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 45
- ISBN
- 48
- Langues
- 1
- Favoris
- 1