“There was a [white] woman in the crowd who told the girls ‘spit on her.’
..’by the time I got to the [school] doors, spit was dripping from the dress my grandmama had made for me to wear to school the first day.’”
~ #DorothyCounts
This happened when she was 15 years old.
THIS. IS. NOT. NEW.👇🏽
#VoteBlueNoMatterWho #Vote2026 #DorothyCounts #CivilRightsMovement #Desegregation #AmericanHistory #Courage #HistoricalDiaries #RealHistory The shame is still here.
"No matter what they have tried to do from murder to torture to erasing us from history to enslavement, nothing has worked to break our spirits. That's what they fear the most. That they can't break us."
#DorothyCounts
Photographer Douglas Martin won the 1957 World Press Photo of the Year with this image of Counts being mocked by a crowd on her first day of school.
68 years ago today Ms. Dorothy Counts-Scoggins joined the student body of Harding High School. As she exited the car her father said, "Hold your head high. You are inferior to no one."
#DorothyCounts
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"God forgives murder & he forgives adultery, but he is very angry and he actually curses all those who integrate"
some ignorant white woman in response to school integration as #DorothyCounts made history in North Carolina
Where are they now? #dorothycounts
#DorothyCounts, la primera #niñanegra en #EstadosUnidos que asistió a una “escuela blanca”, hace frente al ridículo de sus compañeros, 1957
#DorothyCounts, the first black girl to attend an all white school in the United States, North Carolina, 1957.
Can you imagine how strong this little girl has to be..
Stronger than I've ever been.
Why shouldn't this part of history be told in modern classrooms? #BlackHistoryMonth
#OURhistory
