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Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is still teaching us. 📚 At just 6, she bravely integrated an all-white New Orleans school. Her new book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher," highlights the power of education in the fight for equality. History must be taught. 🎥: TODAY

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Cropz1 year ago

@TODAYshow I've been thanking Black Women this month, at the grocery store, out n about, we can imagine what they went thru, because we only receive a fraction of the vitriol and passive aggressiveness today . Thank God for those who had to endure. #BlackHistory

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Chloe1 year ago

@TODAYshow still learning from the best ruby never stops inspiring us with her bravery and wisdom books and bravery go hand in hand

Darlene1 year ago

@TODAYshow Gosh 27 years ago took my then 10yo daughter to hear her speak.. Franed Newspaper clipping of the event she signed for me in my study..

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@TODAYshow Facts Matters

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@TODAYshow Our Dear Ruby a real American Shero

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TODAY IN HISTORY 1960—Ruby Bridges first Black child to desegregate elementary school in New Orleans. In 2023,a Florida school banned the movie about her life. This scene makes Ron DeSantis & MAGA feel "uncomfortable." So I'm posting it here. Pass it on. Just one mother at North Shore Elementary was able to get the movie banned single handedly. Even though the movie has been a staple in the Pinellas County, Florida curriculum for years during Florida Black History Month. She said that “the use of racial slurs and scenes of white people threatening Ruby as she entered a school might result in students learning that white people hate Black people.” The same people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges in 1960 are now upset their grandchildren might learn about the racist crap they did. #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited #ProudBlue

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Ruby Bridges was SIX years old. Six. And the President of the United States had to send federal marshals to escort a little Black girl into an elementary school because racist mobs were screaming they didn’t want integration. People waved Confederate flags. Adults screamed at a child. Parents pulled white kids out of school just because she walked through the door. That is not ancient history. That happened in America within a lifetime. Ruby Bridges said she didn’t even know what the word “integrate” meant. She was just trying to go to school.

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