hair. she carried what looked like a briefcase for her school work. and at 6 years old, she also carried the fate of american history. ruby bridges entered that all white school in louisiana while being shouted at by angry mobs, racist taunts, hateful insults. i remember the chant, two, four, six, eight, we don t want to integrate. some of these people were very threatening. they were going to kill her. they were going to hang her. one protester s sign read all i want for christmas is a clean white school. another held up a miniature coffin with a black doll inside. i use toad have nightmares about the box. so those are the days that i distinctly remember being really, really frightened. for years had fought against the supreme court s ruling to outlaw segregation in schools. that ruling just three months before ruby entered the world in which she was not welcomed by all. and that day, and all the days that followed, ruby was isolated in the principal s office. sh
on to us. so every time i see that i think about the fact that i was an innocent child that knew absolutely nothing about what was happening that day. we will be his innocence and eventually her pain is a good reminder that for a suffering world, both at home and abroad, courage can win, even if in the tiny shoes of just one little girl and on one particular november day. laura, my daughter has a book, it s called lady legends off a bit, and b is for ruby bridges. and i am grateful for that today and every day. you know, i am to. norman rockwell painting hung in my dining room as a child my entire life. it was passed down to my sister jennifer, now it is in her home. and i can tell you, there is not a moment that goes by when i was a student, one of very few number of black students in my schools ever in my entire life growing up. and i always thought about what it was like, and i am forever grateful for that little girl. and when she became. so i m so glad you monitor to
Is there more questions . Usage of the boy who was infatuated with you. Have you heard anything from him since the book was complete . No. His father went to prison camp, and i didnt even know if he is still alive. So thats our lives. Many people are missing and theres no way we can find those people. And hopefully i can go back home some day and find some of my friends. Thank you so much for your questions. Thank you. Okay, have a wonderful evening and i hope you can enjoy the book. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] if you want to buy a book, well be shutting down at about a 45 p. M. And youre welcome to go downstairs and fight and come back up. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] is there a Nonfiction Author or a book youd like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email, booktv cspan. Org. Tweet us at booktv or post a comment on our wall, facebook. Com booktv. Welcome to monterey on booktv locate a longer Central Coast of california. This Waterfront Co
And this bay was so stunningly gorgeous. And id feel a little guilty. And the question was, well, why is this place so special . How come it missed all those problems that almost every other place in the ocean has . And the answer as we dug into it, me and my coauthor, it turns out that monterey bay had all those problems. It didnt miss them, it had them all. And 80 years ago this was a place you wouldnt want to be standing, right on this beach, doing anything because the water was polluted, the air was foul. The seals were gone, the whales were gone, the otters were gone, the abalone were gone, fishing was bad. Sardines eventually were all taken as well. So all of that was happening 80 years ago, and the difference is that monterey bay got better. And the story of the revival of the bay from that 80 years ago is really the story in the book. 250 years ago we had a very different Business Model for how we used the ocean. Hes the Business Model heres the Business Model. It was find some
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