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Skelly Wright and Ruby Bridges

By Skelly

My son's been learning some good lessons this week. At the moment, he and I are watching a movie that he brought home from school about one of his new heroes, Ruby Bridges.I was pleased to Google her story and find the connection to one of my old heroes: On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old Bridges, escorted by four gun-toting US federal marshals, walked past a screaming mob of angry white people to do the unthinkable in New Orleans at the time: Go to school with white children...Backed by an order from Federal District Court Judge J. Skelly Wright, she walked quietly up the steps of William Frantz public school, past youths who were chanting, "Two, four, six, eight! We don't want to integrate..."My third-grader is incensed by the way the people in the movie are treating this first-grader...continue to full post

Full post as published by Arbitrary and Capricious on January 26, 2008 (boomark / email).