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Elizabeth Eckford was born in 1941 and is still alive today. She unfortunately did not graduate from high school because all of the schools were closed. Elizabeth went to Knox College but did not stay long, and she later went to Central State University in Ohio. After college, she worked in the military for 5 years and had many jobs afterwards.

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1. She was in the US army for five years.
2. Her father, Oscar Eckford, worked for the Missouri Pacific Railroad as a nighttime dining car maintenance man.

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In 1957, when they were integrating the schools three years after Brown v. Board of Education.

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Because Brown v. Board of Education declared that "separate but equal" is inherently unconstitutional. It still took them three years to integrate the Southern schools who were against integration. People were crowding in the streets, spitting on and screaming at the students because they didn't want integrated schools.

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Elizabeth went to her new integrated school in Little Rock, AK. She attended Little Rock Central High School

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Elizabeth was one of the nine African American students sent to Little Rock Central High School to start desegregation in public schooling. The plan was for nine people to go to school together, but their communication was not clear the night prior to the event and Elizabeth was the first one to reach the school alone.