British Blacks Don't Exchange "the Look"
"The Problem We All Live With," a Norman Rockwell painting, depicts Ruby Bridges, 6, on her way to an all-white school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Because of threats and violence against her, four deputy U.S. marshals escort the child during the city's school desegregation crisis. This piece was first published in the Western Daily Press in Bristol, U.K. on April 24, 2001. I saw her walking towards me – the first other black person I had seen in the street after firs