Look up Eckford in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Eckford may refer to: Elizabeth Eckford (born 1941), one of the Little Rock Nine group of African-American...
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Elizabeth Ann Eckford (born October 4, 1941) is an American civil rights activist and one of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students...
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Henry Eckford may refer to: Henry Eckford (horticulturist) (1823–1905), British horticulturist Henry Eckford (shipbuilder) (1775–1832), Scottish-born American...
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Eckford of Brooklyn, or simply Eckford, was an American baseball club from 1855 to 1872. When the Union Grounds opened on May 15, 1862 for baseball in...
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Eckford Township is a civil township of Calhoun County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is part of the Battle Creek Metropolitan Statistical Area. The...
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photojournalist Will Counts in 1957 showing her shouting at Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, during the Little Rock Crisis. On September...
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Henry Eckford (12 March 1775 – 12 November 1832) was a Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur who...
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Alan Francis Eckford DFC (6 February 1919 – 6 December 1990) was a British flying ace of the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. He was...
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Henry Eckford (T-AO-192) was a Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler of the United States Navy. She was never completed. Henry Eckford, the sixth...
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everlasting pea, L. latifolius, a perennial. Scottish nurseryman Henry Eckford (1823–1905) cross-bred and developed the sweet pea, turning it from a rather...
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Ruelle (singer) (redirect from Maggie Eckford)
Margaret C. "Maggie" Eckford (born November 21, 1985), known by her stage name Ruelle, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music has been used on television...
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Henry Eckford was a small passenger-cargo steamboat built in New York in 1824. She was the first steam vessel in the world to be installed with a compound...
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Joseph Eckford (8 November 1814 – 22 November 1884) was an Australian politician. He was born in Newcastle to mariner William Eckford and Mary Orrell....
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The Eckford Chain of lakes is composed of Blue Mountain Lake, Eagle Lake, and Utowana Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. The chain was named...
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James Eckford Lauder RSA (15 August 1811 – 27 March 1869) was a notable mid-Victorian Scottish artist, famous for both portraits and historical pictures...
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Tyler Eckford (born September 8, 1985) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Eckford played for the New Jersey Devils organization of the...
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Eckford is a small village located between the larger towns of Kelso and Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders. The village is in close proximity to both the...
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Henry Eckford (17 May 1823 – 5 December 1905) was a Scots horticulturist and reputedly the most famous breeder of sweet peas, transforming the plant from...
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Horace Roome (redirect from Horace Eckford Roome)
Major-General Sir Horace Eckford Roome KCIE CB CBE MC DL (17 May 1887 - 29 June 1964) was an officer of the Royal Engineers. He was commissioned into...
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: U.S. Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780160632563. Rhoades, Henry Eckford; McPherson, Edward; Schem, A. J.; Ottarson, F. J.; Cleveland, John F.;...
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Called the "Little Rock Nine", they were Ernest Green (b. 1941), Elizabeth Eckford (b. 1941), Jefferson Thomas (1942–2010), Terrence Roberts (b. 1941), Carlotta...
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Echo Township Antrim 952 877 +8.6% 928 34.85 90.3 25.2/sq mi (9.7/km2) Eckford Township Calhoun 1,298 1,303 −0.4% 1,282 35.4 92 36.8/sq mi (14.2/km2)...
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Greene Park on October 24, 1845. Brooklyn's Excelsiors, Atlantics and Eckfords were the leading teams from the mid-1850s through the Civil War, and there...
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Frank Pidgeon (section Formation of Eckford)
1825 – June 12, 1884) was an American baseball pitcher. He played for Eckford of Brooklyn from 1855 to 1862, and was one of the club's founders. Pidgeon...
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War II drama Where Hands Touch. In 2019, Stenberg portrayed Elizabeth Eckford, a 15-year-old girl who in 1957 was among a group of nine black students...
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integration crisis at Central High School. Mr. Green mentions other students, including Melba Pattillo Beals, Minnijean Brown and Elizabeth Eckford....
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African-American Elizabeth Eckford being harassed by an angry white mob of students after being denied entrance at Central High. He recalled Eckford never losing her...
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professional NAPBBP (aka NA). The Eckfords and Atlantics declined to join until 1872 and thereby lost their best players; the Eckfords survived only one season...
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The huge painting James Watt contemplating the steam engine by James Eckford Lauder is now owned by the National Gallery of Scotland. There is a statue...
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from entering the school. Minnijean Brown, Terrence Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed, Melba Patillo, Gloria Ray, Jefferson...
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