Ruby Bridges Today Video

Ruby bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school.

Ruby bridges today video.

Learn more about bridges s life and accomplishments in this article. In a recent tweet hoda wrote ruby. In a video. Civil rights leader ruby bridges remembers integrating the new orleans school system in 1960 and the lessons of racial justice that her teacher and dr.

To commemorate the. Today anchor hoda kotb who worked as a reporter in new orleans for several years has a special attachment to bridges and got to interview her in 1994. Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south. C ivil rights icon and activist ruby bridges says that when she saw the young people take to the streets after george floyd s killing she felt like it was about time.

She was the first african american child to desegregate the all white william frantz elementary school in louisiana during the new orleans school desegregation crisis on 14 november 1960. Ruby bridges american activist who became a symbol of the civil rights movement and who was at age six the youngest of a group of african american students to integrate schools in the american south. She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell. Rockwell and civil rights in the 1960 s leaving behind his beloved storytellin.

For more information visit. She later became a civil rights activist. This social studies video for children shares the braver.