Posts Tagged ‘Ruby Bridges’

A half decade after the painter Norman Rockwell turned her portrait into a powerful symbol of American public school desegregation, Ruby Bridges-Hall was back in Oakland last weekend, telling a packed church, “At the end of our time, there is not going to be a white heaven and a black heaven. There is only going to be one place.”

A large bronze monument celebrating 25 humanitarians, including Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and poet Maya Angelou, was unveiled Tuesday at a ceremony in downtown Oakland.