Paradoxically, it’s been Hazel, who has led a life of far greater financial and familial security, who now feels wounded and angry. With enormous courage and resiliency, Elizabeth ultimately made a life for herself and has largely come to peace with her past. First came the hellish year she and other black students endured inside Central, and then decades in which the trauma from that experience, plus prejudice, poverty, family tragedy, and her own demons kept her from realizing her extraordinary potential. What Counts had captured both symbolized and anticipated the ordeals that Elizabeth, a girl of unusual sensitivity and intelligence, would face in her lifetime. If anyone in the picture, which reverberated throughout the world that day and in history books ever since, should feel aggrieved, it’s of course Elizabeth Eckford.
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