THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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She came to school late.
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She was kidnapped.
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She did not have a phone so she did not know where to meet and the mob was following her.
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She was sick and didn’t go to school on the first day.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) is one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The integration came as a result of Brown v.
Detailed explanation-2: -The two were never able to mend the tension and their friendship sadly went downhill. Eckford and Bryan haven’t spoken since 2001, but the photograph of the two of them taken in 1997 is still sold as a poster in the visitor’s center near Central High School, now a National Historic Site.
Detailed explanation-3: -Eight of the nine arrived together that first day in a carpool arranged by the local NAACP chapter. One student, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford, didn’t have a telephone at home and was unable to be reached to learn about the carpool plan. She took the city bus, which dropped her off within two blocks of the school.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hazel Bryan Massery (born 31 January 1942) was a student at Little Rock Central High School during the Civil Rights Movement. She was depicted in an iconic photograph made by photojournalist Will Counts showing her shouting at Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, during the Little Rock Crisis.