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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Margolick, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941-.

Eckford, Elizabeth.

Massery, Hazel Bryan, 1942-.

Massery, Hazel Bryan.

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)--History--20th century.

Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.).

School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock--History--20th century.

School integration.

Interracial friendship--Arkansas--Little Rock.

Interracial friendship.

Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Little Rock (Ark.).

Little Rock (Ark.)--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Elizabeth And Hazel

Prologue: Two Dresses

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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-Eight

Thirty-Nine

Forty

Forty-One

Forty-Two

Forty-Three

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613292513

9781452604183

1452604185

9781283292511

1283292513

9780300178357

0300178352

OCLC:

758390652