The “Odd One Out”
Dorothy Counts has gone down in history for being the first African American to attend a then “all-white” school. Although the Supreme Court had ruled that segregation was illegal and that she should be able to attend at her own free will, she was tormented so badly by her white classmates that she didn’t even get through a week at the school. We’ve come a long way since then, but as the killing of George Floyd showed, there is certainly still a way to go to root out systemic racism in America.
The Odd One Out
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