Little Rock crisis, based partly on diaries she kept during the period. She also wrote White is a State of Mind, which begins where Warriors left off. To date, Warriors Don't Cry continues to be a #1 Amazon bestseller in the "Prejudice Books for Teens & Young Adults" genre. In 1959, the NAACP awarded the Spingarn Medal to Beals and to the other members of the Little Rock Nine, together with civil rights leader Daisy Bates, who had advised the group during their struggles at Central High. In 1999, she and the rest of the Nine were awarded the highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal. Only three hundred others have received this. She taught journalism at Dominican University of California, where she is the chair emeritus of the communications department. Personal life While in college, she met John Beals, who she later married. They had one daughter, Kelli, and later divorced. Around 1992, Beals adopted twin sons, Matthew and Evan. Beals resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. References Citations Bibliography Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High. New York: Pocket Books, 1994. Beals, Melba Pattillo. White Is a State of Mind: A Memoir. Putnam Adult, 1999. Beals, Melba Pattillo. March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2018. Beals, Melba Pattillo. I Will Not Fear: My Story of a Lifetime of Building Faith under Fire. Revell, 2018. External links at C-SPAN Warriors Don’t Cry: Connecting History, Literature, and Our Lives a teaching activity from the Zinn Education Project. 1941 births Living people Congressional Gold Medal recipients Little Rock Nine Writers from Little Rock, Arkansas American women journalists African-American women journalists African-American journalists San Francisco State University alumni Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Spingarn Medal winners