elizabeth eckford elizabeth eckford story would have been fundamentally different really. if her mother and father it had a phone. that they were working people. and they had six kids to raise and they couldn't afford that sort of extravagance. and so on the day before school was to start in 1957 september of 1957 on september 3rd of 1957. the eckfords didn't get the phone call from the national association for the advancement of colored people the nation's leading civil rights organization. beckford didn't get the call telling her. that elizabeth was supposed to meet with the nine other kids who were going to desegregate little rock central high the next morning and that together the ten of them would be escorted. to the school so on the morning of that first day on september 4th of 1957 elizabeth got up early. to make sure that she could get herself dressed in the clothes. she had carefully picked out for her first day. she made this skirt. and she had breakfast with her family. and when breakfast was over. her mom called the kids together. so they could all pray togethe

none more dramatic, not more important than the one symbolized by this young woman, elizabeth eckfordeckford's story wouldn't have been fundamentally different, really, if her mother and father had had a phone. but they were working people and they had six kids to raise, and they could not afford that sort of extravagance. and so, on the day before, school was scheduled to start in 1957, september of 1957, on september 3rd of 1957, the eckford's didn't get the phone call from the national association to the advancement of colored people, the nation's leading civil rights organization. the eckfords didn't get the call telling her that elizabeth was supposed to meet with nine other kids who are going to desegregate little rock central high the next morning. and that, together, the ten of them would be escorted to the school. and so, on the warning of that first day on september 4th of 1957, elizabeth got up early. she made sure that she could get herself dressed in the clothes she had carefully picked out for her first day. she made the skirt. that she had breakfast with her family. whe