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BHM Day 23 "A Force To Be Reckoned With"

Top Left: the “Little Rock Nine” Top Right: the 101st Airborn Division escorts Black students to school at Central High Bottom: Black student Elizabeth Eckford is jeered and harrassed trying to enter Central High (Sept. 1957)

You likely have seen some of these images from the Little Rock School Integration efforts in 1957. The person you don’t see in …