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201 Elizabeth Eckford Attempts to Integrate Little Rock High School

Elizabeth Eckford Attempts to Integrate Little Rock High School

black and white photograph of Elizabeth Eckford wearing a white blouse and skirt, wearing sunglasses, and carrying a textbook while being surrounded by an angry crowd of white people.
Black student Elizabeth Eckford is jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School.

Black student Elizabeth Eckford is jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School. This photograph was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize photography jury for the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Photography, but the Prize board rejected it in favor of “Faith and Confidence“. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]

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