Photo 1 Elisabeth Eckford, quatorz ans, s’avança. Un garde National lui barra la route. Elle n’insista pas, fit demi-tour, mais des huées s’élevèrent de la foule blanche massée derrière les soldats en armes. Apeurée, l’enfant noire se dirigea vers la station des autobus. Des garçons blancs coururent pour lui barrer le chemin. UMne femme, blanche également, sortit d’un groupe, prit la main d’Elisabeth et l’entraina en la protégeant. Les cris montèrent de ton, ... (1957)
Picture 1 60 years ago today on Sept. 4, 1957 the Little Rock Nine students were barred from attending school when governor Orval Faubus ordered the National Guard to prevent them from entering the high school. Pictured here is student Elizabeth Eckford walking away from the school after being turned away. This image ran in the Sept. 16, 1957 issue of LIFE with the following caption: “Jeers from a girl, Hazel Bryant (right), follow Elizabeth Eckford as she walks from Little Rock’s Central High. Guardsmen barred her from school.” Although the Little Rock Nine were finally able to attend classes by late September 1957, the fight wasn’t over: throughout the rest of the school year, they faced ongoing abuse, threats, discrimination and acts of hazing from their white peers and, disgracefully, from equally vicious adults. (1957)
For the english text i like to thank him or her who is behind the blog ‘https://nearinfrared.tumblr.com’. It happens that we are presenting the same issue, on my blog out of a French magazine, on the her or his blog from a American magazine and with different images; who said coincidences don’t exist.
Photo 2 A Charlottesville, Caroline du Nord, Dorothy Counts, 16 ans, fille d’un professeur de religion quitte l’école sous les huées. Elle a dit ‘Je reviendrai’ (1957)
Picture 2 : In Charlottesville, North Carolina, Dorothy Counts, 16 years old, daughter from a professor in religion, leaves the school under loud hooting. She says ‘Ill be back’ (1957)
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