Title Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock / David Margolick

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover -- Contents -- Elizabeth and Hazel -- Prologue: Two Dresses -- ONE -- TWO -- THREE -- FOUR -- FIVE -- SIX -- SEVEN -- EIGHT -- NINE -- TEN -- ELEVEN -- TWELVE -- THIRTEEN -- FOURTEEN -- FIFTEEN -- SIXTEEN -- SEVENTEEN -- EIGHTEEN -- NINETEEN -- TWENTY -- TWENTY-ONE -- TWENTY-TWO -- TWENTY-THREE -- TWENTY-FOUR -- TWENTY-FIVE -- TWENTY-SIX -- TWENTY-SEVEN -- TWENTY-EIGHT -- TWENTY-NINE -- THIRTY -- THIRTY-ONE -- THIRTY-TWO -- THIRTY-THREE -- THIRTY-FOUR -- THIRTY-FIVE -- THIRTY-SIX -- THIRTY-SEVEN THIRTY-EIGHTTHIRTY-NINE -- FORTY -- FORTY-ONE -- FORTY-TWO -- FORTY-THREE -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z Summary "The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation -- in Little Rock and throughout the South -- and an epic moment in the civil rights movement. In this gripping book, David Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives unexpectedly braided together. He explores how the haunting picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its significance in the wider world, and why, for the next half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from its long shadow. He recounts Elizabeth's struggle to overcome the trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel's long efforts to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The book follows the painful journey of the two as they progress from apology to forgiveness to reconciliation and, amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then collapsed -- perhaps inevitably -- over the same fissures and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American race relations more than half a century after the unforgettable photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel, silent but complex, endures"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941- Massery, Hazel Bryan, 1942- SUBJECT Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941- fast Massery, Hazel Bryan, 1942- fast Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941- sears Massery, Hazel Bryan, 1942- sears Subject Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- History -- 20th century SUBJECT Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- History -- 20th century Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) fast Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- History. sears Subject School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century Interracial friendship -- Arkansas -- Little Rock School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General. EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General. Interracial friendship Race relations School integration School integration -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- History. SUBJECT Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Little Rock (Ark.) -- Biography Subject Arkansas -- Little Rock Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations -- History. Little Rock (Ark.) -- Biography. Genre/Form Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2011014101 ISBN 9780300178357 0300178352

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