CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Charlotte civil rights history was made 68 years ago Thursday.
As a teenager, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins was one of the first four Black students to enroll in the city’s white high schools.
“I knew that somebody had to do it,” she said.
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Photos of Counts-Scoggins walking into Harding High School as a sophomore, with white classmates taunting and harassing her, were seen in newspapers all over the world in 1957…