At town hall meetings earlier this winter, some of its members
faced angry crowds, who called them traitors and demanded they be thrown out of office.
Ruby
faced angry crowds and an empty classroom to become the first to attend an all white school after desegregation in New Orleans.
Updated, 4:21 p.m. Cathleen P. Black, the new schools chancellor,
faced an angry crowd of nearly 2,000 people as the Panel for Education Policy voted to close 10 schools.