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- Little Rock Arkansas
- the location of the novel (where LRCHS is located)
- integration
- the process of combining two races that were previously sperated
- Elizabeth Eckford
- one of the Little Rock nine; endured a mob on the first day of school
- Nana Healy
- Link's nana who is very sick and dying, but refuses to get aid from a doctor; she is the factor that convinces Melba Link is on her side
- Grandma India
- Melba's grandma who throughout the novel provides advice and comfort to Melba through her year at LRCHS
- Arkansas National Gaurd
- kept the little rock nine out under order of Governor Faubus
- The Tiger
- the student newspaper
- segregation
- the act of seperating two races from each other
- Andy
- one of the perpetrators, tries to kill Melba, is the 'ring leader' of all the bad things that happen to her
- Brown v. Board of Ed
- court case in 1954 that said that "seperate bu equal in inherantly unequal and has no place in schools becasue it puts a stamp of inferiority on African American children"
- Vince
- Melba's crush and boyfriend for most of the story; eventually they break up
- Mr. Waylan
- the groccer who overcharges them
- Minnijean Brown
- one of the Little rock nine; Melba's good friend; was expelled for fighting back against violence
- Governor Orvall Faubus
- governor of Arkansas; sent in the National Gaurd to prevent the integration of LRCHS
- Testament
- nine life size statues erected in honor of the little rock nine
- NAACP
- (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), founded by W.E.B. DuBois, very helpful to the Little Rock nine
- Thurgood Marshall
- lawyer in Brown v Board of Ed for the NAACP; first African American supreme court justice
- Wednesday September 4th, 1957
- First day of school, the Little Rock National Gaurd prevent the little rock nine from entering the building
- Arkansas Gazette
- the black newspaper
- Teusday September 3rd, 1957
- Governor Faubus called the national gaurd to stop integration, but a judge overuled it and made integration go on
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
- sent in the 101st airbore division to escort the little rock nine into school
- December 7th, 1941
- Pearl Harobor was bombed; Melba was born
- Terence Roberts
- one of the little rock nine, very philisophical
- Danny
- Member of teh 101st airborne division who is also Melba's body gaurd
- Marissa
- black girl who used to bully Melba, but saved her from getting raped by a white man after Brown v. Board of Ed first came out
- Melba Patillo Beals
- author of Warriors Don't Cry; one of the little rock nione; main character in the book, which is written from her perspective
- 101st airborne division
- part of army sent in to protect the nine black students entering LRCHS
- Little Rock nine
- nine African American students that integrated Central High
- Ernest Green
- one of the little rock nine; first African American to graduate from LRCHS
- Mother Lois
- Melba's mother; she is a 7th grade english teacher
- Conrad
- Melba's younger brother
- Link
- saves Melba from being killed or seriously injured by Andy; spys on the perpetrators to help Melba through the school year
- Howell
- Melba's father who works as a hostler's helper on the railroad, he and Melba's mother get divorced when she was seven becasue he didn't want to get his college degree which would get him a better job
- Cenral High School
- the high school in Little Rock that was integrated