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	Elizabeth Eckford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hazel Massery is the white girl seen yelling at Eckford as Eckford attempted to enter the school.
		Elizabeth Eckford (born 1942) is one of the African American students known as the Little Rock Nine.
		On the morning of January 1, 2003, Elizabeth Eckford's son Erin Eckford was shot and killed by police in Little Rock.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elizabeth_Eckford (492 words)

	CNN.com - Eckford: Central High in 1957 'was not ... a normal environment' - May 17, 2004
		On September 4, 1957, Elizabeth Eckford is escorted to a bus after being turned away from entering Central High School.
		(CNN) -- Elizabeth Eckford recently sat down with CNN and recalled the events of the 1957-58 school year, when she and eight other African-American teenage students were chosen to attend Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as part of that city's court-ordered directive to desegregate its schools.
		ECKFORD: There was a period of uncertainty where the president of the United States was talking to the (Arkansas) governor, trying to convince him to remove the guardsmen, which the governor put there as a barrier.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/05/17/eckford.transcript (1570 words)

	Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Series: Professor Renata Weems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The young fl girl in the photograph is Elizabeth Eckford, and the photograph was taken of her on her way to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
		Elizabeth Eckford would be remembered in history as one of the first fl students to integrate Central High.
		Elizabeth Eckford, now fifty five, is no longer terrified of white people's hatred, though no doubt permanently scarred by the memory of that September 4th morning.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /mlk/weems.html (1396 words)

	Elizabeth Eckford (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Eckford was a member of the Little Rock Nine, the first group of African-American students to integrate Central High School in Little Rock.
		Eckford is the recipient of many awards, including the NAACP’s Spingarn Medal, the Army’s Good Conduct Medal and Father Joseph Blitz Award from the National Conference for Community and Justice.
		Eckford lives in Arkansas and is currently employed by the First Division, Pulaski County Circuit Court in Little Rock.
	asunews.astate.edu /eckford.htm (216 words)

	response1
		Eckford was one of the "Little Rock Nine," the valiant fl teenagers who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., despite vehement resistance from the state's governor, Orville Faubus, a vitriolic white mob and sometimes-violent classmates.
		Eckford recalled how she and the eight other pioneering students were locked out of the school for three weeks.
		Eckford believed that “the goal of desegregation was a community good worth the sacrifice.” Using the article, your own experience, the experience of others and/or your reading, discuss whether you think desegregation has been achieved since Ms.
	web.jjay.cuny.edu /~esl/response9.html (745 words)

	Central High 50th Home Page
		Elizabeth Eckford was born on October 4, 1941, and is one of six children.
		Eckford made her way through the mob and sat on a bus bench at the end of the block.
		Eckford is an Army veteran, and has held various jobs throughout her life.
	www.lrsd.org /centralhigh50th/LR9.htm (2337 words)

	Reexamining Central High: American Memory and Social Reality
		A crowd of hostile whites, mixed with news reporters and photographers from around the nation, followed her to a bus stop where she sat down on a bench and stoically waited for a bus to arrive while racial epithets were hurled at her.
		Still shaken by her experience forty-two years later, Eckford tried to stress to the listeners in the auditorium the importance of that moment and the dogged resilience of the Little Rock Nine in wanting to continue the experiment in school desegregation.
		Indeed, Eckford and the Little Rock Nine have arguably become representations of how far the nation has progressed in race relations; in 1998 the U.S. Congress honored them for their "selfless heroism" in the face of "bitter stinging pains of racial bigotry" (1).
	www.oah.org /pubs/nl/2000feb/centralhigh.html (1717 words)

	USATODAY.com - Son of 1957 civil rights figure killed by police (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Eckford was asked to put the weapon down, and when he did not, officers fired a bean bag round at him, to no avail, police Sgt. Terry Hastings said.
		Eckford then began firing the assault rifle again, and police shot back, firing seven to 10 rounds and hitting him six times, Hastings said.
		Eckford, a student at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, was the son of Elizabeth Eckford.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-01-02-little-rock-shooting_x.htm (312 words)

	Elizabeth Eckford - First Black in St-Louis To Work In A Bank in A Clerical Position : Black History Daily
		Elizabeth Eckford was born in Little Rock in 1942.
		Elizabeth Eckford and the eight other African American children at the school suffered physical violence and constant racial abuse.
		In 1958 Elizabeth Eckford moved to St. Louis, Missouri where she achieved the necessary qualifications to study for a B.A. in history.
	www.blackseek.com /bh/2001/156_EEckford.htm (424 words)

	Sojourn to the Past
		Eckford was one of the Little Rock Nine, the first fl students to attend Central High after the Supreme Court ruled segregation unconstitutional.
		In the 1990s Eckford made an important trip of her own -- to the White House, where she and the other members of the Little Rock Nine received Congressional Medals of Honor from President Clinton.
		Perhaps most importantly, Eckford has developed a relationship with a woman who was once a symbol of intolerance.
	www.sojournproject.org /about/press15.html (464 words)

	Lipscomb University - Lipscomb University - Nashville, Tennessee
		Elizabeth Eckford, an important figure in the civil rights movement as one of the “Little Rock Nine,” will speak about her experiences Nov. 6 at 7 p.m.
		In 1957 at age 15, Eckford played a major role in the civil rights struggle when she and eight others became the first African-American students to attend an all-white school in Little Rock, despite opposition from whites in Little Rock as well as the Arkansas National Guard.
		Eckford’s appearance is sponsored by the Lipscomb Office of Multicultural Affairs office as part of an ongoing effort to increase cultural awareness in the community and on campus.
	www.lipscomb.edu /content.asp?CID=4003 (324 words)

	Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation Newsletter, March/April 2003 Issue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Elizabeth Eckford and Kendall Reinhardt sharing their story with teachers in the conference center at The Gallup Organization in Lincoln.
		Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine fl students who attempted to desegregate the Little Rock school system, who would come to be known as the Little Rock Nine.
		Eckford chose to break her silence and share her story with this young student.
	www.nebraskahistory.org /foundatn/newsletr/mar03.htm (1468 words)

	USNews.com: Chain Reaction (3/22/04)
		Elizabeth Eckford would seem to be a likely champion of Brown v.
		For Eckford, life has not been easy since that first year at Central High, when federal troops were sent in to protect the threatened and harassed fl students.
		And she voiced dismay that one of her own children later had to be bused 10 miles to achieve racial balance in the school district.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/edu/articles/040322/22after.htm (576 words)

	jennifer Dispatch
		Elizabeth Eckford boarded the bus that September morning in 1957 nervous but ready to start her first day of school.
		Elizabeth Eckford is the only member of the Little Rock Nine still living in Little Rock.
		Eckford for her time, and commented at how amazing I thought the nine of them were.
	www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester2/031401/031401jenrock.html (1496 words)

	Elizabeth Eckford Recalls Her Long Walk Into Little Rock History
		Elizabeth Eckford takes a moment to adjust the collar of her dress.
		Eckford wore another fl-and-white dress: a cotton outfit with capped sleeves and a wide skirt.
		On Saturday, Eckford and fellow classmate Jefferson Thomas spoke briefly at one of several events scheduled to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Central's desegregation.
	www.csmonitor.com /1997/0924/092497.us.us.2.html (578 words)

	Elizabeth Eckford
		The white population of Little Rock were furious that they were being forced to integrate their school and Faubus described the federal troops as an army of occupation.
		Elizabeth Eckford eventually moved back to Little Rock, Arkansas, and is now the mother of two sons.
		Elizabeth Eckford was interviewed about her attempts to gain entry to the school on the first day of term in 1957.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAeckford.htm (1758 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2001028580
		Elizabeth Eckford and nine other fl students hoped to enter the all-white school today as part of a desegregation plan ordered by a federal judge.
		Because Eckford's family did not have a phone, she had missed the instructions to join the other students this morning, so she was walking toward the school completely alone.
		Eckford could see uniformed soldiers ringing the entrance and letting white students into the school, and she assumed they were supposed to protect her.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/samples/random042/2001028580.html (2320 words)

	Wiley A. Branton Awardees
		Elizabeth Eckford is the daughter of Oscar and Birdie Eckford and one of six children.
		Eckford, a state employee, lost her job at the end of the school year.
		Eckford is the recipient of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal, the Army's Good Conduct Medal, and the Florena Lasker Award from the ACLU.
	www.nationalbar.org /news/conferences/wileybrantonaward.shtml (4132 words)

	CNN.com - Civil rights pioneer uses pain of past to send message today - May 17, 2004
		Eckford: "My kids used to hate the press, because they felt reporters would come...
		LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (CNN) -- Tucked away on the fourth floor of a building downtown, Elizabeth Eckford is busy tracking the daily progress of people on probation in her role as a public servant for the Pulaski County courts.
		Eckford would prefer to discuss other topics than the events of 1957-58.
	www.cnn.com /2004/LAW/05/17/eckford.profile/index.html (1016 words)

	Alumni Feature: School of Education Alumni, School of Education, Indiana University at Bloomington
		One of the Little Rock Nine, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, didn’t have a phone and therefore missed the call that would have instructed her to meet at a designated location so the group could walk together.
		She arrived separately and was immediately swarmed by a horde of students and adults shouting obscenities and racial slurs.
		The telling photograph, which shows a stoic Elizabeth Eckford walking in front of an angry mob, was part of Counts’s collection that won runner-up for the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in photography.
	www.indiana.edu /~educalum/chalkboard/spring2004/counts.html (624 words)

	'Life is more than a moment'
		Will Counts' 1957 photograph of Elizabeth Eckford (upper frame, foreground) is one of the 100 top photographs of the century, according to the Associated Press.
		Counts photographed Eckford and her former tormenter, Hazel Bryan Massery (at left, in front of Little Rock's Central High School) at the 40th anniversary of the school desegregation effort.
		Eckford and Massery have attended a workshop on racial healing together and have made joint public appearances to sign a poster featuring Counts' photograph of their reconciliation.
	www.iuinfo.indiana.edu /HomePages/102299/text/counts.htm (571 words)

	British film to revisit crisis at Central High
		It was no big deal, because the two women have become good friends since September 1997 -- as unlikely as that might seem four decades after their teen-age faces were frozen in a famous photograph epitomizing racial hatred.
		He took the 1957 Arkansas Democrat photo of an expressionless Eckford walking away from Central, hounded by a crowd of whites that included Massery (then Hazel Bryan) shouting, her face twisted in anger.
		Eckford, who remains wary of media attention, said she agreed to be interviewed for I Was There "only because it's not scheduled to be shown in this country.
	www.ardemgaz.com /prev/central/baxhazel17.html (668 words)

	African-American History-Lecture 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We have all heard the expression that "a picture is worth a thousand words." The image of Elizabeth Eckford marching through a veritable gauntlet of hate, is a perfect example of this often used phrased.
		Elizabeth, however, had been misinformed about the time and walked alone in the midst of the frenzied crowd as they showered her with abusive language, stones, and spit.
		Try to imagine the volatility of the situation and the circumstances that Eckford faced as she took that walk to the door of Little Rock Central High on the morning of September 4th, 1957.
	kinsey.schema.ca /AAH/AAH-Lecture7b.html (264 words)

	BSM Calendar
		Elizabeth Eckford is one of the "Little Rock Nine," the first fl students to integrate Little Rock High School.
		The image of fifteen-year-old Eckford, walking alone through a screaming mob in front of Central High School, propelled the crisis into the nation's living rooms and brought international attention to Little Rock.
		Hear Elizabeth discuss the challenges and triumphs of integration and why we have to continue to work for racial equality.
	www.unc.edu /student/orgs/bsm/calendar/322brown.htm (161 words)

	irenasendler.org
		She along, with two young men of the high school, would bring about a reunion between Elizabeth and a white student who befriended her forty years earlier.
		In 1996, she reappeared in the news when Heather Jurgensen, a 16 year-old student at a rural Kansas high school, convinced Eckford to be the subject of a video for the National History Day competition.
		While interviewing Elizabeth Eckford, Jeremy asked if there were any white students who befriended her.
	www.irenasendler.org /diversity/eckford.asp (293 words)

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		Because the Eckford family had no telephone, word of the new meeting place never reached Elizabeth, leaving her all alone to face a jeering, white mob and the National Guard.
		Terrified, Eckford retreated and started to walk away but the crowd pursued her, spat on her, and clawed her, yelling, "Nigger!" and "Lynch her!" Finally, Grace Lorch, the wife of a local white minister, helped Eckford board a city bus and returned her to her mother safely.
		Elizabeth Eckford later received a degree in history from Central State College in Wilberforce, Ohio.
	www.jimcrowhistory.org /scripts/jimcrow/women.cgi?state=Arkansas (1156 words)

	4500IntegratnRockyPath
		All of the students, except Elizabeth Eckford, had convened at the home of Daisy Bates, president of the Arkansas NAACP and editor-in-chief of the Arkansas State Press, that first day of school and arrived at Central High by car.
		Eckford marched through a jeering, taunting White mob, like a lone unarmed soldier in the war against segregation.
		Eckford eventually made it to the bus bench and was comforted by a White woman, Grace Lorch, who helped her onto the bus and saw her away to safety.
	www.terry.uga.edu /~dawndba/4500IntegratnRockyPath.htm (1438 words)

	Lessons learned: the battle to integrate Central High School - Special Report - history and dramatization of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As a young girl, Elizabeth Eckford faced discrimination everywhere she went.
		She had to ride in the backs of buses, was forced to attend a small, rundown school, and came face to face with prejudice daily in her hometown, Little Rock, Ark.--all because she was fl.
		Fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford is up early, busy ironing a new fl-and-white dress that she made especially to wear on her first day at Central High School.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_18_103/ai_113054928 (892 words)

	PC(USA) - Presbyterian Peacemaking Program - We are better together!
		Eckford had been a member of the group of nine fl students who first integrated Central High School – the Little Rock Nine.
		Eckford and the other members of the Little Rock Nine not with hate and violence, not with indifference, but with grace and respect.
		Eckford, the other members of Little Rock Nine and their families found the courage and grace to act heroically.
	www.pcusa.org /peacemaking/bettertogether.htm (925 words)

	Renita Weems - Sincerely Wrong
		Wounded but stronger, Elizabeth Eckford, fifty-five, was no longer terrified of white people’s hatred, though no doubt permanently scarred by the memory of that September 4 morning.
		Hazel Bryan Massery, fifty-five, was no longer fascinated with hate, could no longer recall what she was afraid of, wants to offer history a picture of a changed self, though she doesn’t and can’t deny that the photo captured a girl she once was long ago.
		Renita, the image of the photograph of Elizabeth Eckford on your desk and the hate-filled face of another fifteen year old in the background jeering racist comments.
	www.csec.org /csec/sermon/weems_4522.htm (2162 words)

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