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Title: Elizabeth and Hazel
Subtitle: Two Women of Little Rock
Author: David Margolick
Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-10-11
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 30 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
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.
Critic Reviews:
"Margolick's book becomes utterly engrossing, for it touches on a variety of thorny, provocative themes: the power of race, the nature of friendship, the role of personality, the capacity for brutality and for forgiveness." (
Publishers Weekly)
