Article January 13, 1986 Issue

SECOND THOUGHT

Looking again at news and commentary

Richard Saltus

The Boston Globe

From The Boston Globe, June 4, 1985

"As a young psychiatrist, Dr. Robert Coles was baffled by the calmness of a 6-year-old black girl who walked through cursing mobs each day to study, a lone pupil in a school deserted by whites, under a 1960 desegregation order.

"Every morning, Ruby Bridges was showered with threats and abuse as 25 federal marshals escorted her to and from the New Orleans school. Every afternoon, she ran the same gantlet on the way home.

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