Walking Through the Mob at Central High

On the morning of September 4, 1957, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford stepped off a city bus in Little Rock, Arkansas, wearing a crisp black-and-white dress her mother had sewn for the first day of school. She walked alone toward Central High School — the other eight Black students had arranged to arrive together, but Elizabeth's family had no telephone, so she never received the message.…