Elizabeth Eckford
Part of the Little Rock Nine · United States · On the map · Activists · Born 1941 · age 85
Elizabeth Ann Eckford 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.
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The integration came as a result of the 1954 United States Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education. Eckford's public experience was captured by press photographers on the morning of September 4, 1957, after she was prevented from entering the school by the Arkansas National Guard. A dramatic snapshot by Will Counts of the Arkansas Democrat showed the young girl being followed by an angry white group; this and other photos of the day's startling events were circulated around the US and the world by the press.
