... 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 school in New Orleans. She was 6 years-old and had 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 only 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, Barack Obama:
Yes We Can!
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