Saturday, October 28, 2006

Civil Rights Hero Ruby Bridges Honored

Amidst all the angst over this upcoming election and the African American candidates around the country, one wonders, where are the African American women in all this? Hopefully on the next election cycle we will see black women fully represented on ballots as well. One black female participant in the Civil Rights Movement, Ruby Bridges, was recently honored with having a school in California named after her. When she was 6 years old, she was the first black child to integrate the New Orleans schools.

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