David Margolick is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair and the author of Beyond Glory: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling, and a World on the Brink.
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The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl sta... SEE MORE