Courage Behind Dark Lenses
On September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford put on the black-and-white dress her mother had sewn, slipped on a pair of sunglasses, and walked toward...
This is a contemporary on courage and dignity, drawing on 2 Timothy 1:7.
On September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford put on the black-and-white dress her mother had sewn, slipped on a pair of sunglasses, and walked toward Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. She never received word that the other eight Black students planned to arrive together. Elizabeth went alone. A mob of some four hundred white segregationists surrounded her, screaming threats and slurs.…
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