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  2. Elizabeth Eckford - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) [1] is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

  3. The Shattering: America in the 1960s - Wikipedia

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    In addition to depicting events from the 1960s involving well known figures such as John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon, the book also includes narrative historical detail of relatively lesser known figures such as civil rights activists Bayard Rustin and Ella Baker, Elizabeth Eckford (one of the Little Rock Nine) and ...

  4. Hazel Massery - Wikipedia

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    Hazel Bryan Massery (born January 31, 1942 [1]: 45 ) is an American woman originally known for protesting integration. [2] She was depicted in an iconic photograph taken by photojournalist Will Counts in 1957 showing her shouting at Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, during the Little Rock Crisis.

  5. Little Rock Nine - Wikipedia

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    The plates will remain affixed to the submarine throughout its life. Melba Pattillo Beals and Minnijean Brown-Trickey were also named sponsors of the ship, and all members of the Little Rock Nine were honored. Elizabeth Eckford said "(Former Navy) Secretary Ray Mabus asked us to be supporters of the ship and its crew. I signed on to be a foster ...

  6. It’s been 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education. The US ...

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    Hazel Bryan, center left, and other students of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, shout insults at Elizabeth Eckford as she calmly walks to a line of National Guardsmen who blocked the ...

  7. Daisy Bates (activist) - Wikipedia

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    The guard only let the white students to pass the school gate. Eight students out of the nine were asked to go back home. One student, Elizabeth Eckford, didn't receive the message from Daisy Bates the previous night and was met by a white mob outside the school as she tried to find the other eight students in that morning. The mob threatened ...

  8. Benjamin Fine - Wikipedia

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    On September 4, 1957, while covering the attempt at desegregation at Little Rock Central High School, Fine famously sat down beside a lonely and scared Elizabeth Eckford and sympathetically said "don't let them see you cry." Fine was one of two whites at the scene that day who is said to have helped Eckford in some way.

  9. Elizabeth Strout on 'Mrs. Dalloway' and the Book That Broke ...

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    The award-winning author of 'Olive Kitteridge' and 'Tell Me Everything' on Ernest Hemingway, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' and the book that broke her heart.