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Name:Course:Instructor:Date:Warriors Don’t CrySummary“Warriors Don’t Cry†is a memoir book that offers a reflection of the lives of teenage African-Americans during the 1950s in the United States. The book offers an account of severe racial discrimination and segregation that characterized this time and the nine characters, or rather; the Little Rock Nine were victims of the same. The experiences of these nine individuals represent a fundamental trial of equality and courage as the eye of American history sees.The book is written in a ‘first person’ point of view based on experiences of Melba Beals together with her eight African-American colleagues, who were being attempted to be integrated into the Central High School in Ankrass to make it an institution of people of all races as opposed to being of whites only.Melba Beals, who also takes the role of the lead protagonist by the same name, wrote the book during early 1990s before publishing it in 199. Melba is an American journalist and one of the “Little Rock Nineâ€. Born in Arkansas in the United States in 1941, Melba experienced firsthand and understood the impact and extent of racial segregation of blacks with lucidity and vividness.Why Little Rock Nine chose to integrateMelba and her eight peers were concerned with how racial inequality of treatment resulted in adverse effects on the quality of education they received. It was this concern that compelled the ‘Little Rock Nine’ to choose to integrate with the white students at Central High. They in fact personally volunteered to the intergration process with little knowledge of what to expect from the white community and students.It is clear that members of the “Little Rock Nine†came from backgrounds that had high regards for quality education. Consequently, a year before implementation of the integration process, the United States Supreme Court had ruled against the being of all-whites or all-black schools in the country. As such, the black teenagers saw an opportunity of appealing to better judgment by opting to study at Central High for purposes of acquiring enhanced education.Choice not to participate in integration of Central HighIt is clear that extreme tensions still existed among people of different races at the time. The occasion wherein fellow female students attack Melba with...