U.S. Marshalls escorting the extremely brave Ruby Bridges, 6 years old, to school in 1960. This Courageous young girl is known for being the first African American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South.
Bridges, now Ruby Bridges Hall, still lives in New Orleans with her husband, Malcolm Hall, and their four sons. After graduating from a desegregated high school, she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full-time parent. She is now chair of the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which she formed in 1999 to promote "the values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences". Describing the mission of the group, she says, "racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it."
siandresi on June 7th, 2020 at 16:53 UTC »
Bridges, now Ruby Bridges Hall, still lives in New Orleans with her husband, Malcolm Hall, and their four sons. After graduating from a desegregated high school, she worked as a travel agent for 15 years and later became a full-time parent. She is now chair of the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which she formed in 1999 to promote "the values of tolerance, respect, and appreciation of all differences". Describing the mission of the group, she says, "racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it."
gdmfr on June 7th, 2020 at 17:47 UTC »
Norman Rockwell's famous painting of this event.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_We_All_Live_With
HIGHER RES:
https://i.imgur.com/9L35UV8.jpg
Banner80 on June 7th, 2020 at 18:19 UTC »
For her to attend school her first day, men with guns had to make way through a crowd of confederate flags.
Nearly all the teachers abandoned the school except for one.
In her classroom, all her classmates abandoned the class refusing to sit with the 6 yr old.
For the entire school year, Ruby went to school to a classroom that was just her and the one teacher that didn't refuse her.
(about the teacher)