02161cam a2200349 i 4500 340410562 TxAuBib 20180227120000.0 171208s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2017051269 9781328882127 16.99 1328882128 16.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Beals, Melba. March forward, girl [BOOK] : from young warrior to Little Rock Nine / Melba Pattillo Beals ; illustrated by Frank Morrison. New York, NY : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim Crow South. Long before she was one of the Little Rock Nine, Melba Pattillo Beals was a warrior. Frustrated by the laws that kept African-Americans separate but very much unequal to whites, she had questions. Why couldn't she drink from a "whites only" fountain? Why couldn't she feel safe beyond home-or even within the walls of church? Adults all told her: Hold your tongue. Be patient. Know your place. But Beals had the heart of a fighter-and the knowledge that her true place was a free one. Provided by publisher. 950L Lexile. 20180227. Beals, Melba Pattillo Juvenile literature. Civil rights workers, Black United States Biography Juvenile literature. School integration Arkansas Little Rock History 20th century Juvenile literature. African American students Arkansas Little Rock History 20th century Juvenile literature. United States History 1953-1961 Juvenile literature. Little Rock (Ark) Race relations Juvenile literature. Biographies. Morrison, Frank, 1971-