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  1. 1957

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    • Year 1957
    • Photographer Douglas Martin
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category World Press Photo of the Year
    • Prize World Press Photo of the Year
    • Date 04-09-1957
    • Country USA
    • Place Charlotte, North Carolina
    • Caption Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School is mocked by whites on her first day of school. People threw rocks and screamed at her "Go back where you came from". Walking beside her is Dr. Edwin Tompkins, a friend of the family and a professor at the black college Johnson C. Smith University. After a string of abuses, Dorothy's family withdrew her from the school after only four days. Across the United States this week children had been enrolling for the new school year. In the south tension was particularly high for districts trying to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling that states should integrate their schools "with deliberate speed".
    • Year 1957
    • Photographer Douglas Martin
    • Nationality USA
    • Organization / Publication The Associated Press
    • Category News
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 04-09-1957
    • Country USA
    • Place Charlotte, North Carolina
    • Caption Dorothy Counts, one of the first black students to enter the newly desegregated Harry Harding High School is mocked by whites on her first day of school. People threw rocks and screamed at her "Go back where you came from". Walking beside her is Dr. Edwin Tompkins, a friend of the family and a professor at the black college Johnson C. Smith University. After a string of abuses, Dorothy's family withdrew her from the school after only four days. Across the United States this week children had been enrolling for the new school year. In the south tension was particularly high for districts trying to comply with the Supreme Court's ruling that states should integrate their schools "with deliberate speed".
    • Year 1957
    • Photographer Simon E. Smit
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Organization / Publication Het Binnenhof
    • Category News
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 06-06-1957
    • Country Netherlands, The
    • Place The Hague
    • Caption A blind man is saved from drowning at the Veenkade.
    • Year 1957
    • Photographer Zygmund Wdowynski
    • Nationality Poland
    • Category Features
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1957
    • Country Yugoslavia
    • Place Sarajevo
    • Caption Watchmaker.
    • Year 1957
    • Photographer Leos Nebor
    • Nationality Czech Republic
    • Category Features
    • Prize 3rd prize
    • Date 1957
    • Country Mongolia
    • Caption Mother and child.
    • Year 1957
    • Photographer Robert Edwards
    • Nationality United Kingdom
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 1st prize
    • Date 1957
    • Caption A kick in the face during a football match.
    • Year 1957
    • Photographer Jaap J. Herschel
    • Nationality Netherlands, The
    • Category Sports
    • Prize 2nd prize
    • Date 1957
    • Country Netherlands, The
    • Caption Dutch football goalkeeper Frans de Munck, known as 'the black panther'.
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