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Ruby Bridges

Barbara Henry

Monday Nov 14, 1960
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.

As soon as Bridges entered the school, white parents pulled their own children out; all the teachers except for one refused to teach while a black child was enrolled. Only one person agreed to teach Bridges and that was Barbara Henry, from Boston, Massachusetts, and for over a year Henry taught her alone, "as if she were teaching a whole class."


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