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15 year-old Dorothy Counts, the only Black student in her newly desegregated school, is harassed by white students. Family friend Dr. Edwin Tompkins accompanies her. North Carolina, USA, 1957 (lemmy.world)
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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Those people are our grandparents.

Just think about how many of your sweet doting grandparents were in situations just like this that weren't photographed.

How many of our grandparents strung the rope for the lynch mob?

How many of our grandparents were hurling racial slurs at the tops of their lungs?