ministers and elizabeth didn't have anybody. she really took the brunt of it that day. >> this black young teenager all by herself being frightened and screamed at, it's the first of a series of images showing how powerful and virulent southern white racism was. >> reporter: traumatized by the reaction of the ground elizabeth refused to speak to news crews. >> can you tell me your name, please? are you going to go to school here at central high? don't care to say anything, is that right? >> reporter: there was one journalist elizabeth agreed to talk to, moses newson a newspaper reporter for "the baltimore afro-american." >> when i heard about it and rushed over and she recognized me and she said she would talk to me.