- Collection:
- For Educators
- Title:
- The Civil Rights movement: First day of integration at Central High School, Little Rock, Arkansas; photo and first-hand account from Elizabeth Eckford's perspective
- Date of Original:
- 1957/1962
- Subject:
- Civil rights--United States
Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Civil rights--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
High schools--Arkansas--Little Rock
Schools--Arkansas--Little Rock
High school students--Arkansas--Little Rock
Students--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American students--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American high school students--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American girls--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American teenagers--Arkansas--Little Rock
African American teenage girls--Arkansas--Little Rock
Teenage girls, White--Arkansas--Little Rock
Teenage girls--Arkansas--Little Rock
Teenagers--Arkansas--Little Rock
Arkansas. National Guard
United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st
Police--Arkansas--Little Rock
Federal-state controversies--Arkansas--Little Rock
Federal-city relations--Arkansas--Little Rock
Intervention (Federal government)--Arkansas--Little Rock
Intimidation--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregationists--Arkansas--Little Rock
Soldiers--Arkansas--Little Rock
Mobs--Arkansas--Little Rock
Offenses against the person--Arkansas--Little Rock
Harassment in schools--Arkansas--Little Rock - People:
- Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941-
Green, Ernest G. (Ernest Gideon), 1941-
Massery, Hazel Bryan
Bates, Daisy
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
Mann, Woodrow Wilson, 1916-2002
Davies, Ronald N., 1904-1996
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969 - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
- Medium:
- instructional materials
lesson plans
black-and-white photographs
books - Type:
- Collection
- Description:
- Prepared by Leigh-Ann Wager, Stevens Cooperative School, Hoboken, NJ.
"On the first day of integration at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, angry mobs protested outside the school. Eight of The Little Rock Nine, the African-American students chosen to integrate the all-white Central High, met up beforehand so that they could have a security escort through the mob scene. One student, Elizabeth Eckford, did not receive the message about meeting beforehand. Unaware of the mobs and the meeting, she went to school on her own. She was immediately surrounded by an angry crowd. She tried to enter the school several times but soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard prevented her from crossing their line and entering the building. She was forced to continue through the crowds. This famous photo was taken showing a brave Elizabeth Eckford and an angry Hazel Bryan (now Massery) behind her. A kind white woman from the crowd helped Elizabeth to a bus bench and onto a local bus. The second document in this lesson is a first hand account from Elizabeth Eckford about her experiences that was published in Daisy Bates' book The Long Shadow. This moving excerpt will draw students into the moment captured in the powerful photograph." Taken from http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/seminar_docs/civilrights_doc3.html
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/civil-rights-movement/resources/first-day-integration-central-high-school-little-rock
- Rights Holder:
- For the Gilder Lehrman Collection all rights and Reproductions inquires and request contact: Reference@GilderLehrman.org
- Original Collection:
- For Teachers and Students, Gilder Lehrman Institute (Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York, N.Y.))
- Contributing Institution:
- Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
- Rights:
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