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Elizabeth Eckford Denied Entrance to Central High

Will Counts’s iconic photograph of Elizabeth Ann Eckford after she was denied entrance to Little Rock Central High School; September 4, 1957.

African American woman walks surrounded by hostile white men and women

Will Counts Collection: Indiana University Archives

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World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

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Education / Educational Issues and Controversies / School Segregation and Desegregation

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