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HOT SPRINGS -- Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine who Will Counts photographed being harassed in front of Little Rock Central High School, considers herself "a footnote to history," she said during a panel discussion about the event at the 32nd Annual Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival on Tuesday.

Jonathan P. Baird lives in Wilmot. Before going south on a civil rights trip organized by the Nation Magazine, I had never been to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was only vaguely familiar with the struggle to integrate schools there in the 1950s. There was...