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Description: Black student Elizabeth Eckford is jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School. This photograph was recommended by the Pulitzer Prize photography jury for the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Photography, but the Prize board rejected it in favor of "Faith and Confidence".
Title: Elizabeth Eckford
Credit: Distributed by the Associated Press and published in numerous newspapers in 1957. Republished in "Marching on: Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine shares her traumatic experiences attending Central High School", Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, September 5, 2021 Cropped from source image to reflect the portion of the image that was published in 1957.
Author: Will Counts
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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