... yelled, spit and threatened to lynch Roberts, Gloria Ray, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed and Melba Patillo if they tried to go to school. President Dwight Eisenhower ...

... with appreciation for their contribution to the country's civil rights movement. All nine Melba Pattillo Beals, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown ...

... Nine Memorial - Nine life-sized bronze statues pays homage to the nine Little Rock students - Melba Pattillo, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Gloria Ray, Carlotta Walls, Terrence Roberts, Jefferson Thomas, Minnijean Brown and Thelma Mothershed ...

... Milton Davis said. And Hardin, apprised of Counts' celebrity agreed. One of the surprise guests at the event was Elizabeth Eckford who was among the nine back students who attempted to enter Little Rock High School in 1957 and who was the principal ...

... anniversary of their achievement. Unlike Tuesday's celebration, their recollections then contained painful memories Elizabeth Eckford walking from school, yelled at, spit on, and threatened with lynching by a pack of white students and adults ...

Elizabeth Eckford, the most mistreated and scarred of the Little Rock Nine, gave the ... but in the other. Then you're starting to get somewhere with Elizabeth Eckford, I'd wager. Brummett is a columnist for the Arkansas News Bureau ...

LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- When Elizabeth Eckford saw the black and white photos of desegregation, unwelcome memories were inevitable. "These are things I don't think about ...

... Student Affairs at Hendrix College will present a lecture titled "Opening Doors and Minds: The Little Rock Nine" by Elizabeth Eckford and Dr. Terrence Roberts at 10 a.m. Thursday in Reves Recital Hall in the Trieschmann Fine Arts Building. Admission ...

... wanted to get a good education. The problem was that they were black, the school was white, and it was 1957. Elizabeth Eckford of Little Rock and Dr. Terrence Roberts of Pasadena, Calif., two of the Little Rock Nine who attended Central ...

... at Little Rock and the son of Elizabeth Eckford. Mrs. Eckford and eight other ... with all the kids outside." Elizabeth Eckford, through a family friend ... the shooting was justified. Elizabeth Eckford, 60, spent 23 years away from ...