1957 - The teenager who stood tall against segregation
Jan 22, 2017 19:41:27 GMT
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1957
Dorothy Counts
The teenager who stood tall against segregation
by Alex Q. Arbuckle
On Sept. 4, 1957, 15-year-old Dorothy Counts arrived for her first day of classes at Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
She was met by hostile crowds of students and adult members of the local White Citizen Council who taunted her, spit on her and pelted her with sticks and pebbles.
Counts was the first African-American student to enroll at Harding, nearly three years after the Supreme Court ruled public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.
In her first week at Harding, she was harassed constantly and ignored by her teachers. Students spat in her food, threw erasers at her, and smashed the rear window of her family’s car. The few students she managed to befriend were also quickly targeted.
Continue reading here, many more photos as well
Dorothy Counts
The teenager who stood tall against segregation
by Alex Q. Arbuckle
On Sept. 4, 1957, 15-year-old Dorothy Counts arrived for her first day of classes at Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.
She was met by hostile crowds of students and adult members of the local White Citizen Council who taunted her, spit on her and pelted her with sticks and pebbles.
Counts was the first African-American student to enroll at Harding, nearly three years after the Supreme Court ruled public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.
In her first week at Harding, she was harassed constantly and ignored by her teachers. Students spat in her food, threw erasers at her, and smashed the rear window of her family’s car. The few students she managed to befriend were also quickly targeted.
Continue reading here, many more photos as well
