Dorothy Counts

Dorothy Counts was an African American teenager whose 1957 photograph, taken as she was being harassed by white students while integrating a Charlotte, North Carolina high school, became an iconic image of the civil rights era and was referenced by James Baldwin in his essays.

Claims that use this term

• Baldwin linked his return home to the Dorothy Counts photograph.
• Baldwin reframed Dorothy Counts’ story to open with trauma
• Baldwin first saw Dorothy Counts’ photo in late 1957