MELBA PATILLO: WARRIORS DON'T CRY

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  • SHE WAS ALMOST RAPED BUT SHE ESCAPED.

    In 1954 Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that segregation in public schools was illegal. Her teacher dismissed students, told them to walk home in groups. Melba took shortcut across field where older retarded Marissa sometimes lurked. White man angered at ruling attempted to rape her, Marissa attacked him. They escaped
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    MELBA PATILLO: WARRIOR DON'T CRY

    In 1954 Melba was in 7th grade and the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that segregation in public schools was illegal. Her teacher dismissed students, told them to walk home in groups. Melba took shortcut across field where older retarded Marissa sometimes lurked. White man angered at ruling attempted to rape her, Marissa attacked him. They escaped.She signed up to integrate CHS without asking permission.Melba and Mother they got attack by some white people.

  • The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. theBoard of Education that segregated schools were “inherently unequal.

  • Melba almost got raped

  • Little rock adopted a plan integration

  • The NAACP filed suit in Federal District Court to make the shcools integrate immediatel

  • THE BOYCOTT WAS FINALLY ENDED

  • Faubus goes to court

  • Seventeen children from Melba's community had been selected to enter the all-white Ceantral high school.

  • African-American teenagers stood up to an angry crowd protesting integration in front of Little Rock's Central High .

  • Melba's mother got fired from her job.

  • The Federal Courts ruled against the delay for de-segregation

  • The public high schools were scheduled to open earlier than usual

  • She enters college