Rare photos that capture incredible moments from history….and some will make you cry…that’s what they did to me…the very first one, of Dorothy Counts being ridiculed for her color – what is wrong with us as a species? And we’re still stupid and blind in this regard and many others….next time I want to be born in Utopia!!!
Dorothy Counts – the first Black girl to attend an all White school in the United States – being teased and taunted by her White male peers at Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957.
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Mira, I have seen similar memorable photos such as you posted, in a magazine named Popular Photography . This photo was in black and white, with many significant greys, of a tall, undernourished woman, standing tall with a calm, acceptant look on her face. The poor dress she wore was light grey with long thin lines up-and-down also crosswise. Entire books could or have been written that make us weep for the many unfortunate ones, and their different emotional hardships .
Yes, volumes! Especially for those of us who are over-empathetic…and yet I still believe that suffering enriches the wise soul – not that we should seek it, but when it comes, accept and allow it to mature us into richer wine. Om!