Phillis Wilson (right), a retired chief warrant officer 5 and the president of the Arlington, Va.-based Military Women’s Memorial, presents Elizabeth Eckford (left), one of the Little Rock Nine and a Women’s Army Corps veteran, with a Living Legend proclamation on Saturday, March 23, 2024 at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Staci Vandagriff)
Just over a decade after she became a nationally recognized face of the civil rights movement as one of nine students to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, Elizabeth Eckford had yet to finish college and felt she "hadn't really done anything."
