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Gary Olson, PhD

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Gary Olson, Ph.D., chairs the Political Science department at Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. Click here to contact Dr. Olson. Click here to contact Dr. Olson.

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The Empathic Power of Images: Civil Rights, Vietnam and Today

By Gary Olson, PhD

Photos that I vividly recall making an impression on me include 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford being viciously taunted by a young white girl as she attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School on September 4, 1957. And I will never forget the faces of the four little girls killed in the terrorist bombing of the…

Photos that I vividly recall making an impression on me include 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford being viciously taunted by a young white girl as she attempted to…

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