Standing Out
When laws change, it usually takes the population a little more time to accept the change. Dorothy Counts was the first African-American to attend a white school after law changes allowed it. Despite the law being in place, four days later she would leave the school due to bullying and tormenting intimidation.
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Two Faces
Is Michael Jackson the first person you think about when you hear “plastic surgery”? Well you should probably think about Walter Leo. In 1917, during the horrors of the First World War, the first kind of plastic surgery called, “the skin flap” was the means of treating hideous battle wounds.