There's a beautiful, family-friendly film about Ruby Bridge's historic integration into New Orleans segregated schools. #ProfileInCourage
"Ruby faced public humiliation, death threats and racial slurs on her way to school. One woman held a black baby doll in a coffin, another threatened to poison her. Her father lost his job...her grandparents were evicted from the farm they had lived on for decades."
“To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men."
—Abraham Lincoln
“I know there is a God and I know He hates injustice. I see the storm coming and I know His hand is in it. But if He has a place and a part for me, I believe I am ready.”
—Abraham Lincoln
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory...will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched....by the better angels of our nature.”
This summer, I followed about 100 more historians and my feed is already 30% better. More interesting. More cool facts. More insightful links. More sober, considerate, courageous, verifiable-fact discussion. #twitterstorians
My automatic follows are: physicists, poets, theologians, neuroscience researchers, philosophers, women in tech, cephalopod researchers, philanthropists, Korean-Americans and Lithuanians, good cooks—and now, historians.
Suggestions? A broad spectrum of professors/ academics who tweet research, links and insight (PART ONE):