Feb 9, 2021
In September 1957, Dorothy Counts Scoggins made a walk into Harding High
School in Charlotte, NC that would forever change public schooling
and racial segregation. Scoggins was one of four African-American
students to be admitted into an all-white school as a result of the
Pearsall Plan. Dorothy's walk from her
father's car to the front door of the high school would only take a
few minutes, but the effects of her actions are still being felt
today.
In today's episode of Maybe I'm Amazed, host Dr. James Howell
speaks with Dorothy about that
fateful day in 1957. Dorothy not
only talks about that moment and the days leading up to it, but she
also tells the story of how she ended up befriending one of the
white boys who tormented her that day, and how through forgiveness
she was able to forge a lifelong relationship with that student,
even being present with him on his deathbed.