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This Day In History. History Vault. Space Exploration. Art, Literature, and Film History. World War I. Vietnam War. Despite the racial slurs, screaming crowds, and only having one teacher willing to accept her, Ruby did not miss a day of school. The community was torn. Some families supported her bravery. Some northerners sent money to aid her family. Others protested. The entire family suffered for their bravery. Abon Bridges lost his job. Grocery stores refused to sell to Lucille.
Her grandparents were evicted from the farm where they had sharecropped for a quarter-century. Eventually, other African American students enrolled. They yelled names and racial slurs, chanted, and waved placards. The confrontation was expected. Three months before Bridges was born, the US supreme court had issued its landmark Brown v Board of Education ruling , outlawing segregation in schools nationwide.
Six years later, though, states in the south were stubbornly refusing to act upon it. When nine African American children enrolled at the Little Rock school in Arkansas in , it had caused an uproar. President Eisenhower had to call in federal troops to escort the children through a mob gathered outside the school.
Bridges was one of six Black children to pass a test to gain access to formerly all-white schools. But two of the children dropped out and three went, on the same day, to a different school. So Bridges was all on her own. There was no need for me to be afraid of that.
They grew up as sharecroppers poor tenant farmers in rural Mississippi in the pre-civil rights era before moving to New Orleans in So they really wanted opportunities for their children that they were not allowed to have. Her mother, who had been the chief advocate for her attending the white school, lost her job as a domestic worker.
So they were solely dependent on donations and people that would help them. Even her sharecropper grandparents were made to move from their farm in Mississippi. Her parents eventually separated.
So I guess somehow I did feel some blame for it. Life at her new school was no easier for Bridges. For the first year, she needed federal protection every day since protesters were always at the school gates, including the woman with the doll in a coffin. The white parents all withdrew their children from the school, and the staff refused to teach Bridges, except for one teacher: Barbara Henry, who had come from Boston.
For the first year, Henry taught Bridges alone, just the two of them in the classroom. Bridges had another ally outside the school: Robert Coles, a white child psychiatrist who had witnessed the scenes outside the school, and volunteered to support her and her family, visiting the home on a weekly basis. Coles went on to establish a career studying the effects of desegregation on schoolchildren.
It later emerged that it was one of his relatives who had sent Bridges her smart school clothes, which her family could never have afforded. Things changed gradually.
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