Ruby Bridges painting is on display in White House

By Jonathan Tilove, The Times-Picayune

Nine months before Barack Obama was born, Ruby Bridges, age 6, integrated New Orleans’ William Frantz School, an iconic act of fortitude, without which — and others like it — it is possible to puzzle whether Obama would today be president of the United States. [more]

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