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Try: http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/HomePages/102299/text/counts.htm
and http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/0926/text/remember.htm


Will Counts

Photo by Mark Wilson,
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette


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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Publication date: October 12, 2001
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