'Little Rock Nine' member writes book detailing experience
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January 11, 2018
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — One of the nine black teenagers who were escorted to Central High School in Little Rock by federal troops 60 years ago has written a book about her role in the school's racial desegregation.
Elizabeth Eckford and co-authors Eurydice Stanley and Grace Stanley reflect on her time at Central in "The Worst First Day: Bullied While Desegregating Central High." She will speak about the book at two events this weekend in Little Rock, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported .
The 150-page book contains verse, photographs, drawings, essays and documents from when Little Rock's r...
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