The document summarizes key aspects of the memoir "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Pattillo Beals about her experience as one of the Little Rock Nine who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. It discusses the importance of Melba and her grandmother as characters, the major themes of resistance and shifting power through nonviolence as well as changing race relations. It also provides and explains important quotes from the book relating to these themes.