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Elizabeth Eckford
Elizabeth Eckford
Civil Rights Activist, Little Rock Nine

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Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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