Erik Uden => Tell your kids about Ruby Bridges, the first black child at an all-white public elementary school in Louisiana.
She turned 68 last year.
She’s only 68.
68.
Gary E. Walker@Erik My mom graduated from the College of Charleston, an institution which was whites-only until 1971. SEVENTY-ONE.
Holy shit. Even after that it must’ve been only made non-segregated on paper, people were probably protesting it en mass and you were treated horribly as a person of color.
@Erik I can only imagine. When she went there in the mid-60s they still had daily convocation and would turn their backs on the North to pray.