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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Old Photos of "Firsts"

Ruby Bridges becomes the first African American to attend an all-white elementary school in the South; followed by US Marshals because of threats on her life. [1960]

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

She would be a better pick for the $20.00 dollar bill. map

Anonymous said...

I can't even imagine anyone threatening that child. Just horrible.

Anonymous said...

that was Hillary growing up a poor black child

Anonymous said...

Now if we can get the troubled kids out of the schools so kids that want to learn can !

Anonymous said...

A bit over 50 years ago and so much racism in this area. Sad.

Anonymous said...

What a brave child. Bigotry and racism sucks.

Anonymous said...

Wow listen to the liberals crying, watch the news people, loads of problems since the schools were integrated, example (SU race drawings), things were better before this was done, Just sayin.

Gerald said...

3:12 got to agree, we didn't have all of this "Race" crap back then.