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Posted on August 30, 2008 - Total Views 48509
Dorothy Counts First Black Student
World Press Photo of the Year: 1957 Douglas Martin, USA, The Associated Press. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, 4 September 1957. Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School. About the image 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.
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(23 votes, average: 4.7 out of 5)
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Tags : 1957 • Associated Press • Black Students • Charlotte North Carolina • Charlotte North Carolina Usa • Harding High School • Harry Harding • Image • North Carolina Usa • Photo Of The Year • Photographers • Rocks • Violence • Witness • World Press Photo
August 30th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I hope none of those bigots harassing her had any kids of their own!!!! She was very brave!
August 31st, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Go to catholic school theres like 3 black kids and a bunch of preppy kids, sounds like the 50’s.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
a crowd soon gathered to view the strange antennaes growing from the creatures head…
August 31st, 2008 at 10:35 pm
silly white dude with satan-fingers (yeah. just made that up. my english is potent, but not THAT potent) thinks he’s cool.
american rascists infesting the globe and growing in numbers.
why do americans have butter on their fat? because they are plain dumb!
September 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
[...] First Black Student [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 4:00 pm
If i were her i would have been running away when this photo was taken.
She is so brave!
September 1st, 2008 at 9:21 pm
Hey! My catholic school was full of Filipinos…so shut up about Catholic schools not accepting. And Tor..don’t judge an entire country on the actions of several stupid people who actually make it to the news.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:04 pm
caitlin caitlin, I need you……
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:38 am
why is that one guy wearing a dress?
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:51 am
the boy on the left looking at Dorothy Counts, looks so stupid… they would better had him away from the school lol… is she jewish by the way?
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:23 pm
they are flashing gang signs aren they?
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 am
poor white *** boy…
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I’d bang dat nappy-headed ho!
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
it is not even that black. i want my money back!
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
got damn faker/copycat/hater/fan there september 3rd, 2:08.
this will not stand any longer. i’ don’t like the harsh humor. atleast my jokes and irony have finesse and character. you plainly… FAIL as they say in the states. you from the states by the way?
why do americans fail? bacause their americans
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:51 pm
all of us white people act like we hate blacks cuz its cool to do so-
truth is, i’d tap that, she looks good.
that white idiot on her left looks like he would too lol
September 6th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Have any of you read the Malorie Blackman book ‘Noughts and Crosses’? If you haven’t then you should.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
koko no read, only look picture!! No rite too, only type
September 7th, 2008 at 9:22 am
Go to your own school darky!
September 7th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
why are there such immature comments on a page that probably really affects most people deeply. compassion is a valued characteristic some of you should try to get some. and not all americans fail, just those whos life experience is lacking, or who refuse to learn
September 8th, 2008 at 1:02 am
“# Tor Says:
August 31st, 2008 at 10:35 pm
silly white dude with satan-fingers (yeah. just made that up. my english is potent, but not THAT potent) thinks he’s cool.
american rascists infesting the globe and growing in numbers.
why do americans have butter on their fat? because they are plain dumb!”
“Corey says; Rwanda, Sudan, Congo, Bosnia, Germany (Hitler), China (Japanese occupation), and countless other examples of the most heinous racism that humans can inflict on others. That being genocide. White people in general, and Americans in particular may be racist, but show me an ethnic group that is not. And sure, we’re all plain dumb. But at the end of the day, I am still an American, and you’re still not. Keep working on that English potency Tor. You’re getting close to being able to pass the citizenship test for the USA. (Don’t get your hopes up though, the fact that your wife and your sister are one and the same will restrict you to living in just a couple of states.)
September 9th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
why do white people try to copy blacks if they dont like them?
September 9th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
she looks like shes about to turn and whoop some white ***! that girls gettin fed up …better look out before she blows, she is becoming highly perturbed at these honky crackers.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
that white boy on the left looks like he wants some black nookie…
September 13th, 2008 at 5:05 am
Who knew Dave Foley could sink so low?
September 17th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
is this really the first black person to go to school? how come they didnt go sooner, dont they like education? They could get better jobs then and improve themselves.
September 27th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
shame, for shame all you who deride this girls courage.
September 28th, 2008 at 12:56 am
the bravery and determination she exhibited is an inspiration.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:04 am
That negro girl is the devil! You can see her horns in this picture. Somebody get a rope!
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 am
We should NEVER have educated them its caused all sorts of trouble
October 7th, 2008 at 7:58 am
Really brave!
You know, I would like to see some of you afro-hating people speak the same words in an all-afro-american school. Not hiding yourself behind white-pointy-hat words.
Why always accusing the black people of being the problem in America. Start lifting your *** and get a job instead of hanging on momma’s tits for the next 20 years of your life!!
And for the record, I’m white, but when I hear you people speak, I’d rather be any other color.
Microphone
October 7th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
black people dont work, why they wanna go to school? 80% of black males go to prison, that tells ya all ya need ta know!
October 11th, 2008 at 8:27 am
you white people are the evil from your great daddy on down great granddaddy took the black slave girl to the back hpuse and got the ***** why yo sorry **** great grand mama was in the house looking crazy..but god got a plan for all you evil crackers
October 12th, 2008 at 2:14 am
She looks so brave, with her chin still high after going through all she had to go through.
I just CANNOT understand things like this, I try, and I just can’t. I don’t see why it matters what color your skin is (same with what religieon, sexual orientation, etc). We are all human and should be judged, if judged at all, by our compassion and respect for life.
October 12th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
white folks is the debbil! oh lawdy, wat we gwine do now?
October 14th, 2008 at 1:03 am
It looks so brave, with its chin still high after going through all its had to go through.
I just CANNOT understand things like this, I try, and I just can’t. I don’t see why it doesnt matter what color your skin is. We are all human and should be judged, by our skin colour.
October 15th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
did you know that most serial killers are white?
so stop all that hating..
leave people be..
the past is in the past..
so stop acting like your all that.. coz’ you’re not..
you’re just a bunch of racists that doesn’t have a LIFE..
October 17th, 2008 at 1:07 am
@lala, actually meaningful records and statistics were not kept on negro murders until the late 1900’s
because no one really cared.
October 22nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I cant stand men teasing/harming a woman, whether black, brown, white, Asian, Palestinian, Israeli..etc.
How these two could be mean to a woman, with the excuse of her being black… is so… sad.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Say what you like but in 2009, a black man will be running this country. hahaha
November 5th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
a black man is running this country!? I thought he was an oreo, shit, too late to change my vote now! Maybe he will remember how far his white half has carried him, its the only half that works after all.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Lol, that kid on the left wants to hit it.
November 6th, 2008 at 11:05 am
If I were her I would’ve punch everyone on the balls!
stupid rednecks!.
November 6th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
she be ready to turn an whip some *** on those punk *** boys! look at those fists, nuckles dey be clench, she be holdin herself back cuz her mommie say don be startin no trubble now heah?
November 8th, 2008 at 2:59 am
It was only in 1957… today Barak Hussein Obama Jr, first black president of USA. Democracy in America finally enters the twenty-first century.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:07 am
the beginning of the downfall for a once proud nation, culminated now by the election of a half breed to the countries highest post. God has turned his face from the world!
November 8th, 2008 at 3:07 am
so America, like Rome itself, begins to raise up the foreigner.
November 8th, 2008 at 3:15 am
why is that boy wearing a dress?
November 12th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
This election is history. I’m so glad to have been a part of it. November 4, 2008 was the first time since I was 11 years old that I have been proud to be an American.
November 14th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
unfortunately Britainy, america is not proud of you, sell out ****.
November 15th, 2008 at 8:10 am
i’d pee in her butt
November 20th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
skrew all you worthless europeans!
November 20th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
is that obama?
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
Hah, just think, people like you don’t spend enough time in the schools you have. That’s why you’re so goddamn ignorant and will no doubt breed little, inbred, racist morons like yourself. You should be thinned from the herd.
Poopoo, no that’s not Obama, just another African-American that is better, smarter, and more successful than you will ever be.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
Arm, actually America is proud of her. We’re ashamed of worthless, spineless, penniless, trailer trash, inbred scum like you. I’d be proud if you went to Iraq and took a bullet in your head.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
i’d **** her in her *** then make her suck me off.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:12 am
It is apparent that there is no monitor to block those nasty comments from Yeah, Arm and Tor.
Go back under the rocks you crawled from, your brain cells have not developed.
December 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I am real poopoo!
December 5th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
NIGER
December 13th, 2008 at 7:34 am
I can’t believe Americans like you have nothing better to say about poignant photographs that immortalize your country’s horrific acts. Oh wait, I can believe that.
December 14th, 2008 at 2:32 am
I am amazed at the number of foreigners who come on this site and make these amazingly gross and insensitive staements about these pictures. Dont you people in europe and south america have anything better to do than make fun of these beautiful and poignant photos?
December 14th, 2008 at 2:33 am
well, i guess i can believe it….
December 15th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
OBAMA 08 How does it feel to be ruled by a black man? good doesn’t it! HAHAHAHA.
December 18th, 2008 at 5:00 am
That boy says he’ll take two, two packs a Marlboros.
December 25th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Now dats a chocolate factory.
December 27th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
diva Says:
October 11th, 2008 at 8:27 am
you white people are the evil from your great daddy on down great granddaddy took the black slave girl to the back hpuse and got the ***** why yo sorry **** great grand mama was in the house looking crazy..but god got a plan for all you evil crackers
Racism does not mean Whites hating Blacks. It means people hating people because of the color of their skin. Explain to me how it is ok for black people to hate white people and get away with it. After all it is people hating people for the color of their skin. Black people who ***** and ***** are the cause of their own problems, not the white man. And what exactly does this god have coming for me, this god who is all powerful and all forgiving. Is he going to punish me for something I had no control over or does this god do as you say or as you please. But that wouldn’t make sense would it, in fact none of it does. So keep praying to your god to strike the white man down for everything evil in your life. Keep putting money in that collection basket that comes around in church hoping that money actually somehow goes to your god and not the pastors pockets so that he can finish off the payments on his new Cadillac. Keep being irrational and not taking your life into your own hands.
December 31st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
F*ck all of you who are leaving those idiot comments. This photo means alot in many ways. This girl was strong and had the determination. To this, I say, that white power is a very big PROBLEM, and the sad thing is, it still is.