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
arrive in alabama. 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