The Long Shadow of Little Rock: The Story of Elizabeth Eckford :: Civil Rights,

In 1950s America, in that location was a uprising that would sculpt the world into the dumbfound we now inhabit. The particular(prenominal) event in question is one concerning the swarthyen communities mesh in 1950s America, with names such such as Rosa Parks, Emmett Till and (most importantly), Elizabeth Eckford top dog the list of names who took a stand, and, in turn, made America the place it is to solar daytime. As the years went by, details of the many riots the segregation incurred were documented. The focus of this demonstrate will be on a particular documentation coroneted The Long Shadow of Little Rock, a book published in 1962 on what happened to Elizabeth Eckford in Little Rock, Arkansas. However, just what stop we learn from this text file?Firstly however, before we start, we lease to scan the documentation, and see what Elizabeth Eckfords recreation of the day in question events was. The basic story she portrays, is that of her eventful first day at Little R ock High School. Elizabeth was one of 9 black students, specially selected by the colleges authorities, in a bid to banish racism within its high school. The reason Elizabeth was chosen was due to her amazing schoolman results. So, the plot is set, now we need to start the analysis. To start off with, we need to look for any obvious factors associated with the documentation that could affect the accuracy of the document. In the case of The Long Shadow of Little Rock one of these obvious factors would be that this documentation was written by the victim. Now this factor is a echo edged sword, Elizabeth could either be brutally honest about her plight (in the hope that somebody would listen), or she could exaggerate what actually happened in an endeavor to shock the reader and in turn gain attention and endorse in the form of a higher authority. The second factor we can infer is that the crowd that greeted her was firstly bigger the crowd began to follow me, second she was in s ome way segregated from the other 8 black students to join on that day the crowd began to follow me and last just now not least we can infer (most importantly) that this mob that had singled her out were violent albumen racists with quotes such as Lynch Her Lynch Her coming from the crowd in hunt of her.When we read further on into the text, we see just how massive a risk the college took by enrolling these 9 black students into their segregated school.