November 1960. The law on segregation in public schools is repealed. In New Orleans, little Ruby Bridges - 6 years - went to William Frantz Public School, as the first black schoolgirl. Under streams of tomatoes, the cries of anger, threats of racist segregation, will be escorted every morning by police. To go to a school ... empty. White families boycotted the schools for one year. The teacher Miss Henry will school at Ruby Nell normally for one year. A special class for one child.
Norman Rockwell in a series of covers for Look Magazine on racism, illustrates perfectly the scene of the entrance to the little girl in The Problem We All Live With . In N. Rockwell Museum (Stockbridge, MA, NYC 2:30 in the valley of the Housatonic River), one can see a nice selection of other works of the illustrator. Beyond certain sentimentality (saving a boy scout girl flooding, endless admiration for Lincoln), Rockwell painted a few pearls of U.S. popular culture.
[ The Ruby Bridges Foundation founded by Ruby 40 years later]
[ The Norman Rockwell Museum , also with right now, an exhibition on the covers of tasty New Yorker ]
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