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Jul 17, 2006
"Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage." --Anais Nin
Class of One
Before her first day at school in New Orleans, Ruby Bridges' mother told her: "Now I want you to behave yourself today, Ruby, and don't be afraid." Ruby and her mother went to the school, where so many people were outside shouting and throwing things. She seemed to be remembering her mother's words as she entered the school without showing any fear at all. Despite the fact that it was 1960, there were U.S. marshals walking beside her, and she was the first black child to enter an all-white school in the history of the American South. That first year, all the parents of Frantz Elementary pulled their children out of school to protest the integration. As a result, Ruby Bridges spent her first year in a class of one. Read this interview of Ruby Bridges Hall on PBS.
BE THE CHANGE
Segregation was happening less than fifty years ago. Reflect on what, fifty years from now, those who look back at the societies of today will think of as courageous steps.
