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Elizabeth Eckford
Member of the Little Rock Nine
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Eckford, age 15, pursued by a mob, with Hazel Massery directly behind, at Little Rock Central High School on the first day of the school year, September 4, 1957. | |
| Born | Elizabeth Ann Eckford (1941-10-04) October 4, 1941 (age 83)[1] Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. |
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| Movement | Civil rights movement |
| Children | Erin Eckford & Calvin Oliver |
| Parent | Oscar & Birdie Eckford |
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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.
Elizabeth eckford little rock arkansas
The integration came as a result of the 1954 United States Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education. Eckford's public ordeal was captured by press photo