Description:
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 I Will Not Fear, Beals takes listeners 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' story offers listeners hope that faith is the solution to the pervasive hopelessness of our current culture.
Brief description:
Myra Lucretia Taylor is an award-winning actress who has appeared on Broadway, off Broadway, in many theaters across the country, and internationally. Her television and film credits include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Atlanta, The Big Sick, Bushwick, and Catfight.
Review Quotes:
"As listeners who enter into the life of a notable Civil Rights leader with this audiobook will learn, fear was around every corner, and faith in God was the foundation for peaceful resistance leading to permanent change. With Myra Lucretia Taylor's hushed and fearful voice at times mixed with anger, excitement, and resolve--history comes to life. Beals makes it clear that racism existed on both sides, though one side was more equipped to handle it biblically than the other. Though this biography is compelling in itself, narrator Myra Lucretia Taylor adds a personal touch through her narrative gifts, drawing the listener into a real place and time and the stranger-than-fiction true life of Melba Beals."
-- "AudioFile"