The Huffington Post

The White House’s recent addition of a Norman Rockwell painting has prompted a serious discussion of civil rights. Rockwell’s 1963 painting, “The Problem We All Live With,” shows a young girl on her way to first grade after the school board mandated the desegregation of two New Orleans schools in 1960. [MORE]

BET

Ruby Bridges recently took another walk escorted by security. However, instead of wearing a white dress with white ribbons in her pig-tailed hair surrounded by four burly guards as she walked to school in New Orleans, this time she was meeting President Obama at the White House. [more]

WASHINGTON (WWLP) – One of the Norman Rockwell Museum’s best known works of art is on loan to the White House. [more]

By David Jackson, USA TODAY

It’s not every day you get to meet someone who is both an artistic and a civil rights icon — though it happens more often when you’re president.

President Obama met Friday with Ruby Bridges, the subject of Norman Rockwell’s memorable civil right painting, The Problem We All Live With. It shows young Bridges attending a newly segregated school in 1960, accompanied by U.S. marshals, and it now hangs right outside the Oval Office. [more]

NOLA Vie

New Orleans Civil Rights pioneer Ruby Bridges met with President Obama Friday to celebrate the hanging of the famous Norman Rockwell painting,“The Problem We All Live With.” [more]

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]

The White House blog, posted by William Allman

Ruby Bridges visited the White House to see how a painting commemorating her personal and historic milestone looks hanging on the wall outside of the Oval Office. American Artist Norman Rockwell was criticized by some when this painting first appeared on the cover of Look magazine on January 14,1964; now the iconic portrait will be on display throughout the summer of 2011 in one of the most exalted locations in the country. [more]

Dominic Massa / WWL TV Eyewitness News

NEW ORLEANS – More than 50 years ago, Ruby Bridges’ small steps helped write a momentous chapter in New Orleans history. On Friday, she walked into the White House for a meeting with President Barack Obama. [more]

WDSU

Half a century after she broke the color barrier in New Orleans public schools, Ruby Bridges Hall visited the White House on Friday and met with President Barack Obama. [more]

by Jorge Rivas, Color Lines Magazine

uby Bridges is perhaps best known as the 6-year-old  little girl depicted in Norman Rockwell’s iconic painting “The Problem We All Live With.” And today, she’s headed to the White House.

The work was inspired by the story of Bridges and her struggle to integrate New Orleans public schools in November of 1960. The image featured the young African American girl being escorted to school by federal marshals amidst signs of protest and fearful ignorance.

Charles Burks, one of the U.S. marshals who escorted Bridges and her mother into the school building, remembers the little girl who became a hero. “She showed a lot of courage,” Burke said. “She never cried. She didn’t whimper. She just marched along like a little soldier. And we’re all very proud of her.” [more]