@article{427408,
      recid = {427408},
      author = {Margolick, David.},
      title = {Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock /},
      publisher = {Yale University Press,},
      address = {New Haven :},
      pages = {310 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may  not be well known, but the image of them from September  1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white,  walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High  School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face  twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous  photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation -- in  Little Rock and throughout the South -- and an epic moment  in the civil rights movement. In this gripping book, David  Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives  unexpectedly braided together. He explores how the haunting  picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its  significance in the wider world, and why, for the next  half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from its long  shadow. He recounts Elizabeth's struggle to overcome the  trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel's  long efforts to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The  book follows the painful journey of the two as they  progress from apology to forgiveness to reconciliation and,  amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then  collapsed -- perhaps inevitably -- over the same fissures  and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American  race relations more than half a century after the  unforgettable photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as  Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel,  silent but complex, endures"--Provided by publisher.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/427408},
}