Civil Rights Icon to Speak at Csu ; Elizabeth Eckford, a '72 Grad of Central State University, Will Give the Charter Day Address Tuesday.

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DAYTON -- She was caught forever in a famous photograph of an ugly time in the nation's history, when white students assailed nine black students trying to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957.

Wearing a crisp new dress and a pair of sunglasses, Elizabeth Eckford walked to school braving a screaming mob. She tried to enter the school with a crowd of tormenting white students on her heels.

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Civil Rights Icon to Speak at Csu ; Elizabeth Eckford, a '72 Grad of Central State University, Will Give the Charter Day Address Tuesday.

She and the other students of the "Little Rock Nine" were stopped at the school's door...

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