Little Rock girl 1957 : how a photograph changed the fight for integration (Captured history)
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Recounts the events surrounding the 1957 photograph taken by Will Counts that captured one of nine African-American students trying to enter an Arkansas high school while being taunted by an angry white mob and discusses how the photo brought the civil rights movement to the forefront of the nation'... Full description
Series: Captured history
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