Ira Wilmer Counts Jr., Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ira Wilmer Counts Jr.

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1931

Date of Death: 06-Oct-2001

Profession: photojournalist, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Will Counts (Ira Wilmer Counts Jr.; August 24, 1931—October 6, 2001) was an American photojournalist most renowned for drawing the nation's attention to the desegregation crisis that was happening at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
Documenting the integration effort in the 1950s, he captured the harassment and violence that African Americans in the South were facing at this time.
He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for these photographs.