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 ...

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 ...

Just over a decade after she became a nationally recognized face of the civil rights movement as one of nine students to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, Elizabeth Eckford had yet to ...

It is only 9 in the morning, but the sun in Little Rock, Arkansas is beating down on the pavement as it does this time of the year. It is uncomfortably muggy, so 78-year-old Elizabeth Eckford elects ...

True grace and beauty radiate from within. And, during the September events commemorating the 65th anniversary of the desegregation of Little Rock Central High in 1957, civil-rights Icon Elizabeth ...

When 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford walked down the street toward Central High School in 1957, she expected enhanced educational opportunities and increased chances for college scholarships to lie ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Civil Rights Icon Elizabeth Eckford waited 60 years to tell her story, but it was ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — To honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. theCultural Diversity department at the University of Arkansas Pulaski Technical College, theCommunity Involvement ...

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 ...

Civil Rights Icon Elizabeth Eckford waited 60 years to tell her story, but it was worth the wait. Her first autobiography, The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High, received the ...

The following article originally appeared in the February 2012 edition of the DANTES Information Bulletin. Elizabeth Eckford is one of the original Little Rock Nine, the first African-American ...