Fifty-four years ago, Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan had a momentary encounter on the streets of Little Rock, Ark. An ugly encounter, drenched in the hatreds of the time.
Eckford was then a shy, sheltered 15-year old who, for reasons no one quite understood, had volunteered to be among nine African Americans asked to desegregate Little Rock?s all-white Central High School. On the first day of classes, Sept.4, 1957, the nine were supposed to arrive as a group. But no one told Eckford. So she came to school alone and, in the one of the famous incidents of the Civil Rights era, walked into a mob.
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