Ruby Bridges - a courageous American hero.

Fifty years ago, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked into a Louisiana school and made history as the first African-American to attend an all-white elementary school in the American South.

Ruby endured screaming crowds and demeaning threats, but her experience paved the way for generations to come and inspired a famous painting by Norman Rockwell.

Ruby and her family are real heroes in the cause of freedom and justice in the USA and thereby, the free world.

"I can choose to be grateful when I am criticized. I can choose to listen to the voices that forgive and to look at the faces that smile, even while I still hear words of revenge and see grimaces of hatred." Henri J. M. Nouwen