Ruby Bridges, the first black student to integrate an elementary school in the South – of America – is 63 today.
Just wonder about this quote by Prince Bernhard, 1954? I haven’t seen this before. Interesting!
Sometimes things in the world happen and you just want to shake your head and sigh, tap your fingers and roll your eyes. Why do people think that ‘apartheid’ was JUST a South African ‘thing’ from a certain group?
David Isom, 19 years old, broke the colour line in a segregated pool in Florida on June 8, 1958, which resulted in officials closing the facility. Well, well, well, this is the time – and early 60s – when the world shouted ‘apartheid’ – uhm… uhm…it was the same time in so many other countries… in particular ‘certain’ other countries.
Chessalee 