![]() ![]() Participants received an email with a link to the online event prior to the lecture.This lecture was free and open to the public. ![]() In 1999, Congress awarded Beals and the eight other Little Rock Nine members the Congressional Gold Medal - the nation’s highest honor - for their contribution to the Civil Rights movement. In her award-winning book, “ Warriors Don’t Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Desegregate Little Rock’s Central High School ,” Beals gives a detailed, first-hand account of her experience entering the previously all-white school in the face of violent mobs and death threats at the age of 15. The lecture, titled “Warriors Don’t Cry,” took place online via live stream. Melba Patillo Beals, Ed.D., journalist, author and member of the Little Rock Nine - the first group of African American students to integrate Little Rock Central High School in 1957 - will speak at Texas Woman’s University’s sixth annual Jamison Lecture, part of the Nancy P. Part of the Paup Lecture Series "Warriors Don't Cry" with Melba Pattillo Beals Held March 18, 2021 ![]()
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