you know, she sat there talking about what had happened to her, and she said as soon as they say we can go back, i m going back and that just always sort of stuck in my mind. something that this 15-year-old girl was saying. reporter: after a three-week standoff in little rock, a federal judge ordered that the arkansas national guard be removed. the following monday, september 23rd, the black students once again attempted to enter the school. photographer earl davey and three black reporters including moses newson followed the students there. we were walking up 16th
to me. you know, she sat there talking about what had happened to her, and she said as soon as they say we can go back, i m going back and that just always sort of stuck in my mind. something that this 15-year-old girl was saying. reporter: after a three-week standoff in little rock, a federal judge ordered that the arkansas national guard be removed. the following monday, september 23rd, the black students once again attempted to enter the school. photographer earl davey and three black reporters including moses newson followed the students there.
when they get to anniston, some klansmen, white thugs, stop the bus. they firebomb it. there s a reporter, moses newson, on this bus, and neither he nor anyone on that bus imagines that they re going to be able to get out alive. editor has a close brush with death. when i found myself in that burning bus set on fire by the mob, that cold chilling realization that this might be it came over me. they were using boards and chains, daring people to come out and integrate alabama. i decided the best thing for me to do was to stick the camera up under my seat. i had no thoughts about stepping off the bus with a camera hanging around my neck. moses newson quite reasonably
we had the protection of each other and this group of 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
other and this group of 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.