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Summary: African American school children
attending segregated Billingsville School, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Created/Published: 1951 May 20.
Notes: Taken from files of the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
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Summary: In response to school busing decision,
people picketing at Education Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
Created/Published: 1970.
Notes: Taken from files of the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
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Summary: Protester wearing a desegregation
sign outside Mecklenburg Co. School Board, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Created/Published: 1961 Aug. 8. Photo by Jeff Hunter.
Notes: Taken from files of the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
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Summary: Dorothy Counts, 15, entering Harding
High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. One of four black students
to desegregate Charlotte's public schools, she dropped out within
a week.
Created/Published: 1957 Sept. 4. Photo by Jim Dumbell.
Notes: Taken from files of the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
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Summary: Dorothy Counts as she entered Harding
High School
Created/Published: 1957.
Notes: Taken from files of the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
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Summary: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins, 53, on
the steps of Harding High School, now Irwin Avenue Open Elementary
School.
Created/Published: 1996 March 17. Photo by T. Ortega Gaines.
Notes: Taken from files of the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
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Summary: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins
responds to a question posed at a discussion on desegregation in
Charlotte/Mecklenburg Schools, sponsored by the League of Women
Voters
Created/Published: 1995 Jan. 19. Photo by Laura Mueller.
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Summary: Sit-in protestors at
a downtown Charlotte lunch counter. From right: Robert Hunt, Joan
Adams Siler, Ann Frazier Walker, Virginia Lee.
Created/Published: 1960.
Notes: Courtesy Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, Public Library
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Summary: Gustevas Roberts, rear, sitting
in integrated Charlotte's Central High School on Sept. 4, 1957.
Created/Published: 1957. Photo by Jimmy Dumbell.
Notes: Taken from files of the Charlotte Observer newspaper.
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Summary: Gustevas Roberts, rear, sitting
in class at Charlotte's Central High School on Sept. 3, 1957.
Created/Published: 1957. Photo by Jimmy Dumbell.
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Summary: Protest reaction against
Dorothy Counts entering Harding High School.
Created/Published: 1957 Sept. 4.
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Summary: Reginald Hawkins, key
figure in the Civil Rights Movement in North Carolina. He led integration
of what is now Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital, helped with the desegregation
of Ft. Bragg, and escorted Dorothy Counts to school on her first
day at Harding High School.
Created/Published: 2003 Feb. 14.. Photo by Diedra Laird.
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Summary: Mrs. Charles Fox escorts students to their buses
at Hidden Valley Elementary School.
Created/Published: 1970 Sept. 16. Photo by Dave Johnson.
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