Ruby Bridges Footage

Ruby bridges first girl to desegregate new orleans school in 1960 shares rare footage from scene in 1960 as a 6 year old ruby bridges became the first black child to integrate a previously.

Ruby bridges footage.

The clip also captures a white mother who chose to keep her child in school fighting back against a crowd of angry segregationists. When recalling the first trip to her school ruby bridges recalls today i saw barricades and. In 1960 6 year old ruby bridges made history by walking into an all white school in new orleans breaking the color barrier. Now 50 years later the little girl who integrated the william frantz.

Ruby bridges is a significant figure in. Ruby bridges shared never before seen footage of her first day as the first black child at a new orleans school in 1960 on selena gomez s instagram account. Bridges talked about that woman daisy. Ruby nell bridges at age 6 was the first african american child to attend william franz elementary school in new orleans after federal courts ordered the desegregation of public schools bettmann.

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