Remembering the desegregation scene at Little Rock’s Central High | Opinion
In this Sept. 4, 1957 file photo, students of Central High School in Little Rock, including Hazel Bryan, shout insults at Elizabeth Eckford as she calmly marches down to a line of National Guardsmen, who blocked the main entrance and would not let her enter. Editor’s note: The following excerpt is from Mourner’s Bench, a novel by Sanderia Faye, reprinted here with permission from the author.
Colored folks lined the street behind us now. Seemed like an equal amount of people on the inside and outside of the fence. Where most of the colored folks wore their Sunday church clothes, the whites seemed to be wearing their work clothes, simple cotton dresses and khaki pants. “Tornadoes going to be here directly,” one woman wearing a loud yellow and blue hat said. She wasn’t from around here, or she’d know those were just rain clouds.
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