'What protected me was the innocence of a child': Ruby Bridges reflects on 1960 school integration
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'What protected me was the innocence of a child': Ruby Bridges reflects on 1960 school integration
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges reflects on the day she made history by attending a newly desegregated Louisiana school in 1960.
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Sixty years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges endured a rioting mob as she integrated a New Orleans school. Despite threats to her family — and a mass exodus of the student body out of protest — Bridges remained, and advanced to the second grade: https://comca.st/2Um7cJn | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
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Civil rights icon and activist #RubyBridges recalls what went through her mind when, as a 6-year-old first-grader, she became one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans. Bridges, now 69, offers more wisdom to a new generation with her book “Dear Ruby, Hear our Hearts.” #civilrightsmovement #TodayShow
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Civil rights icon and activist #RubyBridges recalls what went through her mind when, as a 6-year-old first-grader, she became one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans. Bridges, now 69, offers more wisdom to a new generation with her book “Dear Ruby, Hear our Hearts.” #civilrightsmovement #TodayShow
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