トームさんのインスタグラム写真 - (トームInstagram)「#repost @essentialthrowback ʙʟᴀᴄᴋ ʜɪꜱᴛᴏʀʏ: This is 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧 𝐄𝐜𝐤𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝. She's 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 Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The integration came as a result of Brown v. Board of Education. ⠀ On the morning of September 4, 1957, Eckford was to join eight other students to become the first black students to enroll at the all-white school. Because she did not have a phone in her home, Eckford never received a call from Daisy Bates, the head of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, telling the students to come to her house prior to heading to the school. This caused Eckford to take a city bus and walk up to the school's front entrance alone. ⠀ Once there, she was being hurled insults at by an angry white mob of about 400 including men, women and teenagers behind her as she is denied entrance to the school by the Arkansas National Guard, set in place by Governor Orval Faubus to prevent black students from entering the school. With raised bayonets and mean glares, the frightened 15-year-old turned away to head towards the bus stop. ⠀ While en route, the mob ascended upon her yelling and threatening to lynch her. One of them yelled: "Grab her over to this tree. Let's take care of this n***er!" As she got to the bus stop crying, Grace Lorch (a white woman) arrived, having just dropped off her daughter at a nearby junior high, rescued Eckford and escorted her home. This rescue would later make Lorch and her family a target. ⠀ Eckford and the other eight students would stay home for 2 weeks and after 18 days of trying to persuade Governor Faubus to obey the Supreme Court's ruling, President Eisenhower decided to send federal troops to Arkansas to ensure that black children could go to Little Rock Central High. This had infuriated the white population in Little Rock and upon their arrival, Elizabeth and the eight other students suffered constant racial abuse and physical violence in which Eckford was pushed down a flight of stairs. ⠀ #blackhistory #elizabetheckford #littlerocknine」9月4日 14時16分