Most Powerful Images From Around The World Pt 1

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassment's after 4 days. 

January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.

   
1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

  1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs. 

1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier. 

1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town. 

1973. A few seconds before Chile 's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

 

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses. 

  Award winning Photo

  February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain . The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

  1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.

  1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.