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