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Member of Little Rock Nine Recounts Torment at Central High

KUAF | By Daniel Breen
Published January 30, 2020 at 12:49 PM CST
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(Left) Elizabeth Eckford on Sept. 4, 1957, surrounded by reporters, while waiting for a bus after her encounter with an angry mob. (Right) Eckford poses on a commemorative bench unveiled in 2018.
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This week, Elizabeth Eckford, one of the nine black teenagers who desegregated Little Rock's Central High School, spoke at the Statehouse Convention Center as part of the Clinton School of Public Service speaker series. Eckford discussed the white mobs, armed soldiers and daily torment that came with being part of that seminal moment.

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Daniel Breen is a Little Rock-based reporter, anchor and producer and currently serves as News Director of UA Little Rock Public Radio.
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