To some extent source B from an article in the New York Times, September 1957, written by a white journalist, which could be seen as biased, does agree with what Eckford said as he explains the crowd was screaming at the black students entering the school,
“the crowd now let out a let out a roar of rage.”
The journalist has also made it clear that the white people didn’t want the black students to enter the school,
“the Negroes are in our school”
Eckford also explained that she also didn’t think the white people wanted them in their school
“I went up to the guard. He didn’t move.”
The journalist also agreed that the crowd was calling abuse at the students, on the other hand, however, the journalist has not included some of the main points that Eckford was trying to get across,
“when I tried to squeeze past him he raised his bayonet”
The journalist has not explained that there were guards at the premises of the school that tried blocking the students from entering, and has gone against what Eckford explains, saying there was no violence only shouting and also he explains that white people were hysterical which is not mentioned in Eckfords book, This indicates that neither one of these sources are not entirely reliable as they both state different things.
Source C is a photograph of Eckford on her first day at Little Rock. It shows people that look as though they are angry and shouting which probably wasn’t too nice of things. In the photograph it clearly shows a guard in the mob with the white people, which Eckford has explained there was a crowd of white people, and it also agrees with her when she said, that guards were present as they are clearly shown standing in the crowd of white people. The photograph also agrees with both A and B when it shows the white people screaming at the black people.
However source C does disagree with A in some ways as it doesn’t show Eckford scared when she said that she was frightened,
“I was very frightened”
It also doesn’t show any physical violence as neither does source B.
Overall I think that source C is the most reliable out of the three as it is a photograph and you can’t change what a photograph looks like. I think that source C supports source A more that B because as Eckford explained guards were present which is shown in the photograph, you can also see the crowd of white people are screaming at Eckford which also supports what source A has suggested.
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