A revisionist correction

Posted on March 2, 2005, 8:00 am, by Craig Silverman, under Newspapers.

Chictrib_8A picture caption that accompanied a
Feb. 8 KidNews story on the Little Rock Nine incorrectly depicted
Arkansas National Guardsmen as protecting Elizabeth Eckford and eight
other black students at Arkansas’ Little Rock Central High School in
1957. In fact, the Arkansas National Guardsmen in the photo were
turning her away from the school.

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