McCarthy Grade 8 Enrichment: Zoom Author Visit with Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals, Warriors Don't Cry
Date
Friday, March 6th, 2026
Location
McCarthy Middle School
250 North Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824
Category
McCarthy PTO
Our 8th grade students will hear an inspiring message of "Choice, Voice and Inclusion" and how they relate to personal equality from Dr. Melba Beals who wrote Warriors Don't Cry which they will have all read in ELA.
This will be a live video conversation and lecture with Dr. Beals, multiple award-winning author, educator, lecturer and one of the Little Rock Nine. At age 15, she had faced angry mobs, and vindictive students in order to earn a better education.
Dr. Beals is the author of two books that deal with segregation in the 1940's and 1950's; Warriors Don't Cry and March Forward, Girl. These memories bring to life the raw emotions of a young girl who understood early in her life that she must fight of self-respect in a word where others were determined to make her "less than."