Warrior's Don't Cry

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. Instead, she went to stay at the home of Dr. George McCabe and his wife Carol in the Santa Rosa, California.

Dr. Lois Peyton Pattillo (Mother Lois)-Giving birth to a sick baby the same day that Pearl Harbor was bombed started the life of Melba Pattillo Beals. Mother Lois was one of the first African American to integrate the University of Arkansas where she received her master’s in education. She worked as a seventh grade English teacher and was the main source of income for her family. Her husband worked at the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a hostler’s helper but they divorced when Melba was only 5. Besides Melba, she had two other people to support, Melba’s brother Conrad and her mother Grandma India. Although Grandma India earned some money cleaning white people’s houses, this was not a big part to the family’s income. With Melba’s decision to be one of the first to integrate Central High School, Mother Lois’s job was in jeopardy. When her contract came up for renewing, they told her that it would not be renewed unless Melba dropped out of Central High School. Help from th!
e community Bishop, Mother Lois was finally offered her job back, after several weeks of no money and nowhere to turn for help. After the hardest year for that family, Mother Lois, unlike her daughter, stayed in Little Rock to raise her son Conrad.

India Anette Peyton (Grandma Indi...