Dorothy Counts: The teenager who challenged the segregation, 1957

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Dorothy Counts made national news in September 1957, when at the age of 15, she became one of the first and, at the time, the only black student to enroll in the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School in Charlotte (North Carolina). This came nearly three years after the Supreme Court ruled public school segregation […]

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