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Warriors Don't Cry Chapters 11-18

Melba Pattillo Beals

Chapter 16

  • Easter has arrived
  • Link explains to Melba that everything he has been doing is for her.
  • Link warns Melba that the segregationists have something planned for April inside the school.
  • Link's dad makes him attend meetings with a group of white students that are trying to get the LR9 kicked out of school.
  • Melba, Grandma and her mother fix her a dress for Easter Sunday.
  • Melba doesn't want to give up anything for lent because she has sacrificed enough attending Central High.
  • Links calls mad that the school is cancelling activities because of the attacks. He talks about his dad being a businessman that has been forced to contribute money to the Citizens Council. His dad isn't for integration, but he also isn't for beating up anyone’s children. He mentions his nanny; Nanna Healey. He's mad and Melba is worried he will turn on her.
  • Court hearing for integration. Judge Lemley is appointed to hear the case.

Chapter 15

  • Grandma calls Link one of God's good white people.
  • Grandma suggest Melba "turns the other cheek" and start being nice to her attackers - the attackers are stunned.
  • Melba returns Links car.
  • The AME churches give the LR9 bibles.
  • Link pretends to be on Andy's side to protect Melba.
  • Melba questions Links motive.

Chapter 14

  • Minnijean returns to school January 13th. first day back she is attacked by a bowl of soup, but doesn't fight back.
  • Melba talks to Grandma about wanting to be dead. Grandma insist that's the last thing she wants becasue the headlines would read: "Little Rock Heroine gives in to Segregationists - kills herself."
  • Prank calls are being made to LR9 families
  • January 26th Minnijean is attacked again by a bowl of soup - she fights back and is suspended again.
  • Februart 14th it snowed and the LR9 are attacked with snowballs with rocks inside after school one day.
  • Minnijean is finally expelled - February 18th.
  • Minnijean goes to NYC for schooling and lives with Dr. Kenneth B. and Mamie Clark
  • Link (white boy) saves Melba from Andy who threatenes to kill her.

Chapter 11 Continued

Chapter 18

  • Melba's family has to take the risk of talking to the newspaper in order to get Mother Lois' job back.
  • The loss of Mothers teaching position had caused much distress; late house payment, no more credit at the grocery store, etc.
  • Lois gets a job offer in Oklahoma
  • Will give mother her job back if she withdraws Melba from the school.
  • May 7th, Newspaper finally prints and article about mother losing her job.
  • Segregationist try to prevent Ernest from graduating.
  • Melba assigned a new body guard, but he was not there for her, but for the school.
  • Bishop O.J. Sherman helps mother keep her teaching position.
  • Melba passes school and it is summer. She builds a fire and burns her books.
  • Melba writes in her diary for God to protect Earnest as he walks at graduation.
  • Nanna Healey dies. Link goes to Harvard University.
  • May 29th the eight fly to Chicago to receive the Robert S. Abbott award conferred by the Chicago Defender newspaper. They also recieve the NAACP highest honor (the Spingarn Medal) in Cleveland.
  • June 22nd grants integration for another year. By September 1958 they had won their battle.
  • 1959 Melba moves to California for school. lives with George and Carol McCabe. 1962, marries John. Has a daughter named Kellie. She always thought of Link as a hero, a special gift from God sent to ferry over her through a rough spot in life.
  • Her Little rock experience taught her to have courage and patience.

Chapter 12

Chapter 17

Chapter 13

  • Little Rock Nine uesed the news conference at Thanksgiving to speak their minds about how they felt about integration. Wanted the media to see their side of the story.
  • Melba wants to attend the production of The Mikado, but isn’t sure she'll be able to.
  • Segregationists' campaigning gets worse
  • Link calls needing Melba's help. Link takes Melba to his Nanny's house in the run-down part of town where the poor blacks lived.
  • Melba feels fortunate that her mother has a good paying teaching job or they'd be living there.
  • Link is at Nanna Healey's to drop off food.
  • Nanna Healey has been with Links family since before his parents were married. She has no family. When Nanna Healey got sick his family let her go. She has no money, no job, nothing, so link takes her food. Link's father thinks Link is weak for helping Nanna. Melba gets a doctor to go see Nanna. He tells them that she is dying.
  • Melba tells Grandma India about Link and Nanna Healey. Melba convinces Grandma to make weekly visits to Nanna Healey. She does and Link and Grandma form a sort of friendship.
  • Melba's mother doesn't get her teaching contract renewed. Lois can have her job back if she withdraws Melba from Central.
  • There is a Christmas Party for the Little Rock Nine. They exchange gifts.
  • Melba's dad visits for Christmas to bring gifts.
  • Melba's New Years Resolutions:
  • Stay alive until May 29th
  • Pray daily for strength NOT to fight back
  • Keep faith, understand how Ghadi behaved under such circumstances.
  • Behave in a way that pleases mother and Grandma
  • Maintian best attittude at school
  • Help Grandma with her work
  • Help Minnijean remain in school - be a better friend
  • Melba's Sweet Sixteen Party
  • No one, other than Vince, shows up
  • Her old friends are afraid to socialize with her becasue of the integration.
  • Old friends throw a Christmas party and Melba can't go. Vince leaves early to go to the Christmas Party.
  • Melba's old friend Marsha tells melba that she isn't willing to die with her becasue of integration.
  • Melba and Vince no longer see each other becasue of the integration.
  • Screaming Eagles are gone for good. All troops have been withdrawn from the school.
  • Minnijean pours her chili on some white boys that won't leave her alone. She is suspended.

Chapter 11

Basic Information

  • Round Table meeting is the first Thanksgiving news conference
  • Ertnest, Minnijean, and Melba (LR9)
  • Sammy and Kaye (White Students)
  • Mrs. Rickets (Reporter who set it up)
  • Round Table was a turning point for integration.
  • "Warriors Keep Moving"

(Melba's new motto)

  • Minnijean wants to participate in school performance because she thinks it'll make the white girls like her more. Tricked out of it by white students and the Mothers League.
  • November 25th Melba speaks at school chapel service to 250 students.
  • Second Thanksgiving news conference at Daisy Bates house. Integrated turkey joke: Mrs. Bates: "Do you want white meat or dark meat?" Melab: "This is an integrated trukey."

Little Rock Nine:

  • Ernest Green
  • Jefferson Thomas
  • Terrance Roberts
  • Elizabeth Eckford
  • Thelma Mothershed
  • Minnijean Brown
  • Carlotta Walls
  • Gloria Ray
  • Melba Pattillo

Timeline:

  • 1877 Jim Crow Laws
  • 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
  • 1941 December 7th Melba is born
  • 1954 Brown v. Board of Ed.
  • 1957 September 3rd LRCH Integrated
  • 1958 Governor Closes schools
  • 1959 Melba moves to California
  • 1960 Centrigh reopens to integrateion
  • 1962 Melba maries John
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