FEATURE PHOTO - Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges Visits the White House
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - President Barack Obama, Ruby Bridges, and representatives of the Norman Rockwell Museum view Rockwell’s "The Problem We All Live With,” hanging in a West Wing hallway near the Oval Office, July 15. Bridges is the girl portrayed in the painting. She was first escorted to school by federal marshals on November 14, 1960. She faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend a previously all white New Orleans school. Instead of greetings, she was bombarded with jeers, death threats, and ended up as the sole child in her first grade class after parents kept her classmates home in protest. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)