Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock

The Riveting, Revelatory Story Behind One of the Civil Rights Movement’s Most Iconic Photographs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Early in the morning of September 4, 1957, two girls in Little Rock, Arkansas, dressed for school. Both were fifteen years old and about to begin the 11th grade. One, Elizabeth Eckford, was black. The other, Hazel Bryan, was white. Later that morning, Elizabeth and Hazel would be captured in a photograph as the opposing faces of the civil rights movement. Elizabeth—dressed all in white, her handmade white