Editor's note: This story was written as a part of the Observer's Explorer Post program, which gives high school students the chance to learn about journalism. Dorothy Counts-Scoggins is an ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Just over 65 years after a walk that changed the fabric of Charlotte during the civil rights era, icon Dorothy Counts-Scoggins returned to her old stomping grounds. In 1957, ...

In 1954, the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka declared that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. That decision laid the groundwork for ...

In 1957, 15-year-old Dorothy Counts became the first black student to attend Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. Escorted by Dr. Edwin Thompkins, a family friend, she endured jeers by boys who spat ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In collaboration with Johnson C. Smith University, alumna Dorothy Counts-Scoggins reflects on the historic events of September 4, ...

In 1957, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins integrated her school in Charlotte, N.C. Now students at her old campus unveiled a plaque to honor her. Dorothy Counts-Scoggins Honored At High School She Integrated ...

In a historic photograph at the Levine Museum of the New South, a young Dorothy Counts-Scoggins makes her way up the auditorium stairs to enter her new school. A mob of white students crowd her, some ...

J. Stacy Utley met Dorothy Counts-Scoggins a couple of times at community meetings in Charlotte’s West End recently, but it was the picture of her from more than 60 years ago that kept projecting in ...