Making Them Look

Read Tommy Tomlinson (thanks, Ted): Look at this picture.

What do you see?

Maybe it depends on who you are.

This picture was taken the morning of Sept. 4, 1957 -- almost exactly 50 years ago. That week four black students integrated the Charlotte schools. Three of the four made it to class peacefully. The fourth was Dorothy Counts at Harding High.

That's Dorothy in the middle, headed for Harding's front door. She's 15 years old. Her grandmother made that red-and-yellow dress. Dorothy's grandmother always made her a new dress for the first day of school.

The dress has spit on it.