U.S. marshals escorting Ruby Bridges from an elementary school in New Orleans in 1960 following court-ordered integration.Credit...Associated Press
The New York Times
Lucille Commadore Bridges, who in 1960 broke through the segregated education system of the Deep South by enrolling her 6-year-old daughter, Ruby, in an all-white elementary school in New Orleans and escorting her there during her first year of classes, died on Tuesday at her home in the Uptown section of New Orleans. She was 86.
The cause was cancer, according to Ruby Bridges.
Lucille Bridges and her daughter braved a fusillade of abuse from white protesters as they walked up to the doors of the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 14, 1960, under the escort of federal marshals, making good on the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.
The scene was immortalized in the Norman Rockwell painting "The Problem We All Live With," originally published in Look magazine as a two-page spread.
The cause was cancer, according to Ruby Bridges.
Lucille Bridges and her daughter braved a fusillade of abuse from white protesters as they walked up to the doors of the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on Nov. 14, 1960, under the escort of federal marshals, making good on the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional.
The scene was immortalized in the Norman Rockwell painting "The Problem We All Live With," originally published in Look magazine as a two-page spread.
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If all of us had the guts this little girl had, we would not be in the place we are now with our hard-headed politicians at all levels. I am doing some research on this topic so that I can read the whole story. Thanks for sharing this moment.
Beautiful story of two strong women - an example we all should follow. If all of us had the gut to stand up for our beliefs, we would not find ourselves in turmoil with our politics. I will research all the related stories and try to learn great lessons from them. Thank you for bringing this up. Great story!
wITH SO MANY MORE IMPORTAN NEWS THIS LOCAL BOZO NEWSPAPER PRINTS THE FOLLOWING: Mexico arrests soldier in missing students case
NO WONDER, close up shop and leave just like the corrupt politicians here that are being rejected at the voting booth.
El Paya Jerry McHale sigue con su pendejada se ser escritor -
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Vato escribe como un analfabeto! Los escritores gransdes no se dan complimentos ellso solos. Este Guey no es escritor! Es un cagapalo!
Louisiana? Tell me Who integrated Brownsville schools, puto? La cagas, Juan, la cagas.
Brave ladies.
Now the good Americans, have to face trump supporters: Hate Groups, Fight club mentality, heavily armed groups wearing military fatigues and with leaders that support White Supremacy, English only, and no minorities.
Most of the leaders are rebels: do not follow orders, love to incite violence and they know how to move crowds to fight the unarmed and the unprepared.
2:23 the movement had to start somewhere? Was Cesar Chavez from here?
Check back on the Douglas Fredrick Elem. School in Brownsville where Mittie Pulman was the principal. The history is there, but you need to read about it and research it. Todos hijos de Dios, o todos hijos del Diablo; do you believe in this? Doesn't seem like it.
Principal of only ONE school. Thank the gringos for that, now they try to right a wrong with naming schools, districts and what ever. Makes these gringos feel good BOLA DE MAMONES...
A LAS COSTILLAS DE ALGUIEN MAS!!!!!!
There are 100's of teachers from here and they picked someone from out of town? HOW NEAT! And she was here only a few years before she moved to CC. And at CC there are no monuments about this person, WHY?
PUROS PINCHES GRINGOS MAMONES WITH THEIR GUILTY CONSCIOUS.
AT LEAST PICK A PINCHE COCO BUT NOT EVEN THAT!
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