Ruby Bridges Goes to School (The 6 Year Old Activist)

11/28/22 • 11 min

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Ruby Bridges was a 6 year old African-American child, who desegregated the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960.
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Through My Eyes
By Ruby Bridges
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ruby-Bridges
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/ruby-bridges
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The Little Rock Nine were a group of nine Black students who enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in September 1957 in an attempt to challenge the segregation after Brown vs Board of Education
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On February, 1, 1960, Four Black college students that sat at a "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and sparked a movement that would spread to towns throughout the South and forced Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist policies.
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