AFRICAN-AMERICAN JUVENILE JUSTICE PROJECT (AAJJP)
"For these are all of our children and we will either profit by, or pay for, whatever they become." - James Baldwin
20/20 in 2010:
Insight and foresight into our future!
"Your potential is not what you have done, it is what you can do!" -- Sherri Jefferson
GA Residents -- Get Involved in the Re-write of the Juvenile Justice Code Cick Here and for click Proposed Legislation -- Review AAJJP proposal below
EDUCATION OR INCARCERATION:
YOU CHOOSE
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Jonesboro, GA 30236
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A Black girl escorted to school- 1960
On November 14, 1960, nearly 49 years ago, 6 year old Ruby Bridges faced hostile crowds, and had to be escorted by U.S. Marshalls , because she was the first black child to attend previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans , Louisiana . Ruby was 6 years old. (The Great Norman Rockwell created the painting above depicting that event.)
A Black girl escorted to school - 2009
On January 5, 2009, nearly 49 years after Ruby attended her school, 7 year old Sasha Obama, faced cheering schoolmates as she is escorted by her Mother and U. S. Secret Service Agents to Sidwell Friends Elementary School in Washington , DC . Her Mother, the current First Lady of the United States of America , had Secret Service escort because Sasha's daddy is now the 44th President of the United States , Barack Obama:
GLORY BE TO GOD, FOREVER MORE!
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