I Will Not Fear: My Story Of A Lifetime Of Building Faith Under Fire
by Melba Pattillo Beals /
2018 / English / EPUB
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In 1957, Melba Beals was one of the nine African American students
chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
But her story of overcoming didn't start--or end--there. While her
white schoolmates were planning their senior prom, Melba was facing
the business end of a double-barreled shotgun, being threatened
with lynching by rope-carrying tormentors, and learning how to
outrun white supremacists who were ready to kill her rather than
sit beside her in a classroom. Only her faith in God sustained her
during her darkest days and helped her become a civil rights
warrior, an NBC television news reporter, a magazine writer, a
professor, a wife, and a mother.
In 1957, Melba Beals was one of the nine African American students
chosen to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
But her story of overcoming didn't start--or end--there. While her
white schoolmates were planning their senior prom, Melba was facing
the business end of a double-barreled shotgun, being threatened
with lynching by rope-carrying tormentors, and learning how to
outrun white supremacists who were ready to kill her rather than
sit beside her in a classroom. Only her faith in God sustained her
during her darkest days and helped her become a civil rights
warrior, an NBC television news reporter, a magazine writer, a
professor, a wife, and a mother.
In
InI Will Not Fear
I Will Not Fear, Beals takes readers on an unforgettable
journey through terror, oppression, and persecution, highlighting
the kind of faith needed to survive in a world full of heartbreak
and anger. She shows how the deep faith we develop during our most
difficult moments is the kind of faith that can change our
families, our communities, and even the world. Encouraging and
inspiring, Beals's story offers readers hope that faith is the
solution to the pervasive hopelessness of our current culture.
, Beals takes readers on an unforgettable
journey through terror, oppression, and persecution, highlighting
the kind of faith needed to survive in a world full of heartbreak
and anger. She shows how the deep faith we develop during our most
difficult moments is the kind of faith that can change our
families, our communities, and even the world. Encouraging and
inspiring, Beals's story offers readers hope that faith is the
solution to the pervasive hopelessness of our current culture.