Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “ Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” ( King): In June 1963, college professor, George Wallace, stood in front of his school doors to prevent two black students from enrolling there. When Wallace refused to budge, President John F. Kennedy called for 100 troops to assist the federal officials that escorted them. Wallace chose to step down rather than incite violence. Ruby Bridges and her mother had to escorted by four federal marshals every single day. She started getting scared when one woman had a black baby doll in a coffin. People threatened to poison her, she would not eat anything besides sealed packages of food and cans of soda. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court said, separate but equal was unconstitutional. When Bridges graduated from the white
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They would not let blacks go to the same schools as the whites. Blacks were supposed to sit in the back of a bus while the whites could sit in the front. When Bridges was chosen to go to the white school, people screamed, “ Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate” ( Ruby Bridges). They also called her mean names. Mrs. Stine, the store owner, would not let Bridges or their family go into their store because they want to be separated. One woman told Bridges that she was going to hang her or poison her. Ruby Bridges’s father got fired because his boss did not want to have an employee that had a black daughter in a white school. Ruby Bridges principal did not want Ruby Bridges at her school. She is very prejudice, she is only putting up with Bridges because of her boss. The secretary in the office looked scared and nervous when Bridges and her mother went to the same bathroom. People would not even let blacks go to the same bathroom as the whites. They had to go to an outhouse. That is how people showed prejudice back in 1960 and
They would not let blacks go to the same schools as the whites. Blacks were supposed to sit in the back of a bus while the whites could sit in the front. When Bridges was chosen to go to the white school, people screamed, “ Two, four, six, eight, we don't want to integrate” ( Ruby Bridges). They also called her mean names. Mrs. Stine, the store owner, would not let Bridges or their family go into their store because they want to be separated. One woman told Bridges that she was going to hang her or poison her. Ruby Bridges’s father got fired because his boss did not want to have an employee that had a black daughter in a white school. Ruby Bridges principal did not want Ruby Bridges at her school. She is very prejudice, she is only putting up with Bridges because of her boss. The secretary in the office looked scared and nervous when Bridges and her mother went to the same bathroom. People would not even let blacks go to the same bathroom as the whites. They had to go to an outhouse. That is how people showed prejudice back in 1960 and