Little Ruby Bridges And Her U.S. Marshal Escorts
Amazing, isn’t it, that a young girl was so crucial in the civil rights movement? Ruby Bridges was the first black elementary school student in the South to be desegregated. Federal marshals had to accompany her to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans even though it was only a few blocks from her house. But the little girl had to deal with racists every day. White parents threatened to pull their children out of school if she studied with them, so she had to study alone. More than a decade later, she graduated from a desegregated high school. In 1999, she established the Ruby Bridges Foundation with the goal of promoting tolerance and change through education.
Little Ruby Bridges And Her U.S. Marshal Escorts
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