| Desegregation Stalled in September, 1957, Elizabeth
Eckford waits as the African-American students were forced to delay, again,
their integration into Central High. Fearing violence, Little Rock's Mayor
Mann ordered the black students to be withdrawn from the building. The nine
students would not reenter the school until President Eisenhower assured
their protection. Source: Sanford Wexler, The Civil Rights Movement:
An Eyewitness History (1993). |
