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09-18-2008, 03:12 PM
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Dorothy Counts First Black Student Photograph (1957)
Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School. Reporters and photographers bore witness and recorded the violence that erupted when Dorothy Counts showed up for her first day at an all-white school. People threw rocks and screamed “Go back where you came from”. They got their way - after a string of abuses, Dorothy’s family withdrew her from the school after only four days. World Press Photo of the Year: 1957 Douglas Martin, USA, The Associated Press. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4 September 1957.
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10-13-2009, 01:56 AM
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Re: Dorothy Counts First Black Student Photograph (1957)
love the post and pic chris my mother talked to this girl i was told that feces was thrown on her and she was hit and punched it is told that the guards were always around but truth be told they werent always near andsome of the guards got a chuckle off of her being punched and kicked the guards that were supposed to help her were as racist as her classmates my mother was accompanied to school by guards and she said they treated her very badly. |