... the little black girl who had to be escorted to school by federal marshals. "On November 14, 1960, nearly 48 years ago, Bridges faced hostile crowds as the first black child to attend a previously all-white New Orleans school. She was 6 years old and had only been told by her mother that she was going to be attending a new school that day and 'had better behave.' Little did she know that she would be bombarded with jeers and even death threats, and that she would end up being the sole child in her first grade class after other children were kept home by their parents." All because Ruby was Black.

Forty-eight years later -- January 5, 2009 -- here is a picture of Sasha Obama, a little 7 year old Black girl, being escorted to school by her mother, First Lady Michelle Obama, and the Secret Service because Sasha's daddy is now President of the United States, Barack Obama.

1955 Corvette, and Snow White’s Castle at Disneyland

When you wish upon a starMakes no difference who you areAnything your heart desiresWill come to you. - Jiminy Cricket

A trio of Jamaican immigrants walking the streets of Birmingham 1955 Published in Picture Post

27th May 1956 A crowd of 700 West Indian immigrants in the customs hall at Southampton Picture Post

Photo by NBAP/ NBAE/ Getty ImagesSYRACUSE - NEW YORK 1955: The NBA Champion Syracuse Nationals pose for a team portrait in Syracuse, New York in 1955. Front row (L-R): Dick Farley, Billy Kenville. Center Row: Earl Lloyd, Captain Paul Seymour, head coach Al Cervi, George King, Jim Tucker. Rear Row: President Daniel Biasone, Wally Osterkorn, Business Manager Bob Sexton, Dolph Schayes, John Kerr, Billy Gabor, Red Rocha, trainer Art Van Auken. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory copyright notice: Copyright NBAE 2002

Atomic Bomb: The USSR makes their first atomic bomb test. The development was aided by blue prints of the original American Trinity bomb design given to the Russians by the spy Klaus Fuchs, a Los Alamos physicist.

Largest Nuclear Bomb - 1961

Riot in Birmingham Alabama, 1961Detroit race riot - 1943

Albert Einstein died on April 18, 1955 at Princeton, New Jersey.