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Miami Valley Peace Heroes Trail 

Lifting up peace heroes - for the next generation to learn how everyday people can succeed in making the world less violent and more just. Supporting peacebuilding through  Miami Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and our peacebuilding partners.


Support Ruby Bridges in the Peace Heroes Trail 2023

  
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Supporters:

Steve Steel

$500

Catherine Queener

Ruby Bridges is someone I want to think about more often. She challenges me to be better.

$25

Ruby Bridges


Fought racism at 6 years old


When Ruby Bridges was only six years old, she became the first black child to attend an all-white primary school in Louisiana, desegregating the William Frantz Elementary School on November 14, 1960. Escorted by federal marshals past crowds screaming vicious slurs at her, Ruby was a class of one.

Segregationist backlash: Abon lost his job, and grocery stores refused to sell to Lucille. Ruby’s share-cropping grandparents were evicted from their farm.


“Some people did not want a black child to go to the white school. They stood near the school. They yelled at me to go away.”


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Steve Steel

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