My Dad, Will Counts, made a difference with a small camera and the AP wire. We all have small iCameras in our pockets. Use them vs. hate.
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Your dad was a great man. I was lucky enough to have him as a professor in 1992 at IU.
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A great man and an aces dad as well. I miss him for sure but it's cool yet horrifying to see his Little Rock work making a point......again.
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60 years later these facial expressions have not changed much … the dignified determination in a sea of hate.https://twitter.com/beschlossdc/status/904705109799686145 …
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Elizabeth Eckford, age 15, pursued by a mob at Little Rock Central High School on the first day of the school year..Photo by Will Counts
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Such bravery. And the woman behind her looks eerily similar to something we've seen recently.pic.twitter.com/xlGhvGc1rM
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The guy behind him looks like he could have been from the 50s.
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Imagine what courage it took for all those African American kids to go to these all white schools? Heroes!
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Holding them all together was just one of the accomplishments of Daisy Bateshttp://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/daisy-bates-first-lady-little-rock/ …
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The screaming (young?) women in this photo never fail to infuriate me.
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I was 7 years old, living in the Jim Crow South, watching white children on buses moving through my community as I walked to 1/2
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2/2 my most excellent segregated school where parents funded "new" text books and all extra curriculum "add ons', incl and music/arts.
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Oh, that school was the feeder of more than 20 business, legal and educational leaders. Including, the last ED of The Harvard Foundation.
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And a VP of UPenn; CEO of Microsoft; 1st Black graduates of Princeton, 1st woman grad of Sloan at MIT, and I could go on.
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This picture fed many fires.
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60 years later thousands of students face deportation without fault of their own.
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