This series is distinguished in the list of the 20 best photos of the recent 100 years. The photo portrays a 15-year-old girl – Dorothy Counts. On September 4, 1957, she went to school for the first time. Dorothy was the first black pupil in the high school of North Carolina. The method of organizing a joint education of white and black people had been just introduced.
White children uninterruptedly dishonored the first black pupil. But Dorothy was brave; she resisted the trial and opened a way for the education of black people.
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