【11/14 今日美史】美国南方第1个进入白人小学的非裔美国人
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Supreme Court Rules Segregated Busses Illegal
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After the Louisiana schools were ordered to desegregate, 6 black children passed the state exam permitting them to be educated at what were previously white only schools. Two were opted by their families to continue where they were, three more went to school at McDonogh No. 19 (the McDonogh Three) while Ruby Bridges became the only black child to go to William Frantz Elementary School. The first day protests prevented any classes as white families pulled their children out and teachers refused to teach (only one, teacher Barbara Henry, committed to teach Ruby). Four federal marshals were tasked with escorting the six year old to and from school through the protesting mobs, though the second day a white family escorted their own child into the school, which started a reduction in the protests. Ruby never the less endured protests and taunts for the rest of the year and into the next which included threats on her young life.
黑人学生Ruby在警察的保护下走进了白人小学
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Going beyond the sheer bravery of this little girl and her parents, her mother Lucille believed this was an important step for black children everywhere, to stand against decades of entrenched racism, the Ruby Bridges story shows vicious hatred against a little girl going to school. That illustration (enhanced by the artist Norman Rockwell’s work) helped many otherwise neutral, or privileged, observers, realize the reality that their fellow Americans endured.
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Civil Rights, “The Problem We All Live With”