Ruby Bridges Today 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.

Ruby bridges today video. This social studies video for children shares the braver. To commemorate the. Rockwell and civil rights in the 1960 s leaving behind his beloved storytellin. In a video.

Now she teaches children to get past racial differences. She later became a civil rights activist. Ruby bridges is one of usa today s women of the century. In a recent tweet hoda wrote ruby.

Learn more about bridges s life and accomplishments in this article. Ruby bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school. 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. Ruby bridges was the first african american child to integrate an all white public elementary school in the south.

For more information visit. 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 is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell.