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Dorothy Counts-Scoggins tells her story of integrating Charlotte schools 65 years ago this week

Douglas Martin, The Charlotte News / The Associated Press.

Dorothy Counts-Scoggins was one of four black students who integrated Charlotte Public Schools in 1957.

That history-making moment was captured in a famous photograph of her walking through a gauntlet of angry whites shouting racial slurs, throwing rocks and spitting at her while the 15-year-old Counts-Scoggins held her composure.

She was invited back to her old campus a few years ago to make that walk again except this time, she was welcomed with cheers.

Dorothy Counts-Scoggins joins guest host Gwendolyn Glenn to share her story and look at what many consider the re-segregation of Charlotte Schools.

This edition of Charlotte Talks originally aired in 2019.

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