Melba Beals 'Warriors Don' T Cry

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Melba Pattillo Beals is a young teen who was forced out of a normal girl's world and thrown into a battlefield by one choice, and she is the main character in Warriors Don't Cry. Melba is a black teenager and she faces a world with turned heads from her because of her skin color. Melba did not have an easy life before she signed up to integrate into Central, she had to follow divided rules, suffer the hardships of inequality, and she did not know what was heading in her path. At the age of fifteen she finally walked into Central High's hall after many complications, and she became a hotspot for the press. Her first few times at Central weakened her mind and she tried quitting early, but her grandma, India, told her she was on a battlefield