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Will Counts
Photo by Mark Wilson,
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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On Labor Day 1957, Will Counts was on the scene when a young black
woman named Elizabeth Eckford, textbooks in arms, made her way through
a hostile crowd at Little Rock, Ark., Central High School. One of
the photographs he took that day would immortalize one of America’s
painful steps toward racial equality, the desegregation of the country’s
schools. Counts was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize that year,
and the photograph became one of the top 100 photographs of the
20th century as judged by the Associated Press. Counts, who brought
his keen eye and gift for teaching to the IU School of Journalism,
died earlier this week at the age of 70.
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