Book Trailer: Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock, by David Margolick
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Uploaded by yalepress on Sep 30, 2011
Promotional trailer for David Margolick's ELIZABETH AND HAZEL: Two Women of Little Rock.
Copyright (c) 2011 by Yale University.
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 standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation—in Little Rock and throughout the South—and an epic moment in the civil rights movement.
In this gripping book, David Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives unexpectedly braided together. He explores how the haunting picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its significance in the wider world, and why, for the next half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from its long shadow. He recounts Elizabeth's struggle to overcome the trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel's long efforts to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The book follows the painful journey of the two as they progress from apology to forgiveness to reconciliation and, amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then collapsed—perhaps inevitably—over the same fissures and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American race relations more than half a century after the unforgettable photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel, silent but complex, endures.
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I have hope in my heart that there will some day be a third picture. Seems quite sad that after all of this, they have not spoken in over 10 years.
gstockton 1 month ago
Saw Margolick today on BookTV. Seems like a book worth reading.So much is owed to the Little Rock 9 for enduring to change the level of opportunity for those who came behind them. Thank you to all.
Wanday639 4 months ago
Very effective book trailer, especially the use of the historical photos, and the pacing of the narrative. Well done.
eHenHouse 4 months ago