I Will Not Fear

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What to expect

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.

Critics Review

  • “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.”

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  • “When young people face situations that threaten to rob them of their confidence in themselves and in humanity in general, the result can be devastating for a lifetime. However, Melba Pattillo Beals’ book I Will Not Fear quite powerfully presents the lessons in Christian faith that the author learned as a teen faced with fear, humiliation, and outright violence…It is a must-read for teens, their parents, grandparents, and everyone else! I highly recommend it.”

    Dr. John M. Perkins, founder and president emeritus of the John & Vera Mae Perkins Foundation and cofounder of the Christian Community Development Association

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