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SUMMARY:An Evening with Elizabeth Eckford\, Civil Rights Icon
DESCRIPTION:The Equity Project Alliance\, in partnership with the Delta Iota Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority\, Inc.\, and the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast\, was honored to welcome Civil Rights Icon\, Elizabeth Eckford to Pensacola on October 6\, 2022\, to discuss her experience as one of nine black students who desegregated Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957. \nThe Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at formerly all-white Central High School in Little Rock\, Arkansas\, in September 1957. Their attendance at the school was a test of Brown v. Board of Education\, a landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional. On September 4\, 1957\, the first day of classes at Central High\, Governor Orval Faubus called in the Arkansas National Guard to block the Black students’ entry into the high school. Later that month\, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent in federal troops to escort the Little Rock Nine into the school. It drew national attention to the civil rights movement. \nThe Little Rock Nine arrived for the first day of school at Central High on September 4\, 1957. Eight arrived together\, driven by Arkansas NAACP member Daisy Bates. \nElizabeth Eckford’s family\, however\, did not have a telephone\, and Bates could not reach her to let her know of the carpool plans. Therefore\, Eckford arrived alone. \nThe Arkansas National Guard\, under orders of Governor Faubus\, prevented any of the Little Rock Nine from entering the doors of Central High. One of the most enduring images from this day is a photograph of Eckford\, alone with a notebook in her hand\, stoically approaching the school as a crowd of hostile and screaming white students and adults surround her. \nEckford later recalled that one of the women spat on her. The image was printed and broadcast widely in the United States and abroad\, bringing the Little Rock controversy to national and international attention.
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