Now she teaches children to get past racial differences.
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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.
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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.
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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.
She later became a civil rights activist.
She is the subject of a 1964 painting the problem we all live with by norman rockwell.
Learn more about bridges s life and accomplishments in this article.
Ruby nell bridges hall born september 8 1954 is an american civil rights activist.
Ruby bridges is one of usa today s women of the century.
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Ruby bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school.