Tell your kids about Ruby Bridges, the first black child at an all-white public elementary school. She’ll turned 69 this year.

May 30, 2023 12:23 AM

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The William Frantz Elementary school sat abandoned for decades. It has only been refurbished in the last few years.

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It is so fing bizarre that she is only 16 years older than me.

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I am proud to be part of the Bridges family.

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She's the same age as my dad. Never let the right get away with pretending racism is a "past" thing. The people the National Guard had to protect Ruby Bridges from are still very much around and voting.

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People seem to think the civil rights movement was 100+years ago. Even my own grandfather didn't realize he was 14 when segregation was federally abolished.

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You sent satellites into space before agreeing that little black girls are actually people. This is that new.

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they are around and trying to ban teaching kids that the National Guard had to protect a child from them

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The first black women to attend a none segregated school hasn't reached retirement age yet.

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it makes me sad how not long ago that was.

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She did an awesome job not being murdered.

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The feds did their part, also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_We_All_Live_With

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It happened such a short time ago. So many who tossed rocks at her want us to return to that way of thinking. Just gross. I'm so glad I was raised on Star Trek and The X-Men. Helped shape my views. Ya, rest well knowing Riker would sleep with you based on personality.

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This was not that long ago! Take nothing for granted. The DeSatanists of the GQP would go back to this if they could. If we let them.

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There are still people alive that wished to attack he when she first went to that school. Goes to show how it hasn't been all that long and how we haven't gone far enough to eradicated that behavior.

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The people who didn't want desegregation are still alive and voting against your rights- and rights of children - today. So make your vote count!

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And these are the racist pieces of shit losers who shouted hatred at a 6 year-old Ruby. Some of them are probably still alive and spewing their hatred again these days.

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Kid-friendly movies about real civil rights events: Ruby Bridges, Selma Lord Selma, The Watsons Go To Birmingham

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Warriors Don’t Cry

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Amazing book and movie. My 3 are more for little elementary kids

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That must have been tough.

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These were some of the folks there to express their opinion on integration.

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I hate these filthy racist scum along with all their degenerate offspring that are todays Republican base.

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I wish I could say: “God, can you imagine living in a world like that?” Instead we have people trying to make it more like that.

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When they say "Make America Great Again" this is the era they mean.

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