Lorraine Irier pointed at a black-and-white photo of a little girl on the screen at the front of a classroom. She visited her son Zaren’s fifth grade class at Decatur’s Fifth Avenue Upper Elementary.
“Do we know who this is?” she asked. The class responded with a collective, “Ruby Bridges.”
Ruby Bridges was six years old when she became the first person to desegregate an all-white school in New Orleans. Students in Georgia learn about her — as per the state’s educational standards — as a lesson on historical figures that represent important character traits, like fairness.
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