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infographie of Ruby Bridges
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Photo of Ruby Bridges and her teacher Barbara Henry
"My message is really that racism has no place in the hearts and minds of our children"
"Racism us a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it"
"Don't follow the path go where there is no path and start a trail."
The life of ruby bridges
July 15, 2011: Ruby Bridges is received by President Barack Obama at the White House who presents him with the Norman Rockwell painting (wallpaper) and tells him that he would not have become president without her.
November 14, 1960: 1st day of school for Ruby Bridges at 6 years old at William Frantz Elementary School, escorted. 1st African American child in a white school, the only student in her class, the others didn't want to be with her, only one teacher, Barbara Henry, wanted to teach her.
2006: A school in the Californian town of Alameda is named after him.
1999: Creation of the Ruby Bridges Foundation, to promote "the values of tolerance, respect and appreciation of differences"
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1958: The parents of Ruby Bridges respond to a call for volunteers to that it participate in the integration of black people in white schools in the new school system of New Orleans