Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock

321 Pages·2011·2.35 MB·English

by  David Margolick

Elizabeth and Hazel

Elizabeth
Hazel
and
Two Women of Little Rock
David Margolick
New Haven and London
Frontispiece: Contemporary photographs of Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan
Massery, photographed by Lawrence Schiller in Little Rock on March 6, 2011;
∫ 2011, LJS Communications, LLC.
Quotations from various letters to Governor Faubus, as well as from Benjamin Fine,
J. O. Powell, and Elizabeth Huckaby are used with permission of
Special Collections at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Margolick, David.
Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock / David Margolick.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-300-14193-1 (hardback)
1. Eckford, Elizabeth, 1941–. 2. Massery, Hazel Bryan, 1942–. 3. School integration—
Arkansas—Little Rock—History—20th century. 4. Central High School (Little Rock,
Ark.)—History—20th century. 5. Interracial friendship—Arkansas—Little Rock.
6. Little Rock (Ark.)—Race relations—History—20th century.
7. Little Rock (Ark.)—Biography. I. Title.
f419.l7m37 2011
379.2%63—dc22
2011014101
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
To my mother, Gertrude Margolick, with love and gratitude
My interest in any man is objectively in his manhood
and subjectively in my own manhood.
Frederick Douglass
Contents
Elizabeth and Hazel 1
Notes 285
Acknowledgments 299
Index 303
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