Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine black teenagers who faced angry white mobs, armed soldiers and daily torment to desegregate Little Rock's Central High School in 1957-58, on Wednesday recalled that ...

One of the first Black students in the country to integrate into a white high school will be in Pensacola on Thursday to speak about her experiences. Elizabeth Eckford was one of nine Black students ...

HOT SPRINGS -- Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine who Will Counts photographed being harassed in front of Little Rock Central High School, considers herself "a footnote to history," she ...

On Sept. 4, 1957, nine black students were to attend their first day of school at the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark. When they arrived, the Arkansas National Guard prevented them ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine Black students who first integrated Little Rock’s Central High School in 1957, celebrated her 80th birthday at the school with the help of ...

A civil rights leader and member of the “Little Rock Nine,” who encountered a hostile mob as she tried to desegregate her high school in 1957, will speak at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts on ...

MIAMI - Civil rights icon and member of the "Little Rock Nine," Elizabeth Eckford, made the Coral Springs Center for the Arts the final stop of her tour on Tuesday evening. Back in September of 1957, ...

Elizabeth Eckford at the Little Rock Nine Monument at the Arkansas Capitol. Credit: Brian Chilson Strange bedfellows made up the crowd Friday morning at a ceremony honoring the 20th anniversary of the ...

“Historical truth deconstructs damaging myths of marginalized people omitted from popular history,” said Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine. Now, several surviving members of the Little ...