Sharon Emerson

*This is a Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges ... *

[image: Norman Rockwell painting of Ruby Bridges]

*... the little black girl who had to be escorted to school by federal
marshals. "On November 14, 1960, nearly 42 years ago, Bridges faced hostile
crowds as the first black child to attend a previously all-white New Orleans
school. She was 6 years old and had only been told by her mother that she
was going to be attending a new school that day and 'had better behave.'
Little did she know that she would be bombarded with jeers and even death
threats, and that she would end up being the sole child in her first grade
class after other children were kept home by their parents." All because
Ruby was Black. *

*Forty-eight years later -- January 5, 2009 -- here is a picture of Sasha
Obama, a little 7 year old Black girl, being escorted to school by her
mother, First Lady-elect Michelle Obama, and the Secret Service because
Sasha's daddy is now President-elect of the United States. *

















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