 In 1956, forty black students applied for transfers at a white school.This was after the passing of the Pearsall Plan in North Carolina, which amended the Compulsory School Attendance Law so that students may be excused from attending an integrated public school.At 15 years of age, on September 4, 1957, Dorothy Counts was one of four black students enrolled at various all-white schools in the district; she was enrolled at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina.