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Elizabeth Eckford with Grace Lorch during Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis – History Alive: Virtually!
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Gazette reporter in '57 crisis dies; journalist, others shielded Eckford as crowd jeered Little Rock Nine student
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Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High is harassed on the first day of school on Sept 6, 1957. Arkansas National Guards were ineffective
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