Nestes tempos em que questões raciais surgem no Brasil em situações de fato e em debates, nunca é demais lembrar o ocorrido em 4 de setembro de 1957, nos Estados Unidos, com a estudante negra Elizabech Eckford, de 15 anos, autorizada a estudar numa escola, até então, reservada aos brancos.
A foto , em que fica retratado o ódio racista que se manifesta ( talvez alguns estivessem chamando a jovem de macaca) , é de Wiil Counts e concorreu ao Premio Pulitzer de Fotografia
( On this day in 1957, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford encountered an angry mob when she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Eckford was one of nine teenagers, known as the Little Rock Nine, who became the first African American students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High School after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled school segregation unconstitutional in its famous Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Due to the line of soldiers blockading the school and threats from the crowd, Eckford was forced to flee to a bus stop.
As she sat at the bus stop crying, New York Times reporter Benjamin Fine consoled the scared girl, telling her "don't let them see you cry."
Civil rights activist Grace Lorch, who had learned that Eckford had arrived separately from the other students, then arrived to escort her home. )
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