Barbara Henry is an American teacher who refused to leave her teaching job when parents, students, and teachers decided to leave their elementary school to protest the desegregation of schools in New Orleans in 1960. Henry was the first teacher in the Frantz Elementary School who was willing to teach an African-American student, Ruby Bridges. Mrs. Henry was accustomed to a diverse world experience from her travel and teaching experiences in Europe, not to mention her own education at Girls? Latin School in Boston, a microcosm of the City of Boston where ?we learned? to appreciate and enjoy our important commonalities, amid our external differences of class, community, or color.? Before moving to New Orleans she had taught in overseas military dependents' schools, which were integrated. Henry had been living in New Orleans with her husband for just two months when a call came from the superintendent offering her a teaching position. When Henry asked if the job was in a school that would be integrated, the superintendent replied, ?Would that make any difference to you?? She said no.