[chris]

Fifteen-year-old Dorothy Counts arrived at Harry P. Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 4, 1957, as one of the first Black students to attend the newly desegregated school. White students jeered her as she walked toward the building on her first day.

Photographer Douglas Martin captured Counts walking calmly in a checked dress and long white neck bow while grinning white teenage boys followed behind her, some pointing or raising a hand. A white youth walked to her left, and an adult man walked beside her. Martin's image was named the 1957 World Press Photo of the Year. Counts faced continued harassment at the school, and her father withdrew her after four days. She later became known as Dorothy Counts-Scoggins.

[annmarie]

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.

[bellydancinb]

These people disgust me! That poor girl..

[souris]

[luton loyal]

[Eerie]

I bet she was terrified

[cosmic-radio]

Sickening. I really do hate racists