PROPHETS, PIONEERS AND POSSIBILITIES
Sermons for Pentecost [Last Third]
Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist who taught at Harvard University, decided to travel to the South in the early days of the civil rights struggle to see for himself what effect the tension was having upon little children. He soon developed a special interest in Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old black girl in New Orleans. She walked bravely to class each morning accompanied by federal marshals who protected her from the ever-present abuse of an angry mob.
How was she able to stand such tension? Where did a little girl like Ruby get such courage?
