Faces in Photographs: The Little Rock Nine

Kevin Drum, on his Political Animal blog, provides a link to an article on one of the Little Rock Nine, Elizabeth Eckford. Fifty years ago, nine African-American teens were the first to integrate Little Rock Central High School. That was also the year I was born.

I have always wondered about the faces in those photographs from the turbulent era of Civil Rights, the quiet, determined faces of the black students, the screaming, contorted faces of the white students. What happened to those folks who screamed racial epithets at their black neighbors? Did they grow up to repent of their actions? Were they ashamed? Vanity Fair provides answers to these questions in an article about two such faces in a photograph.