02/20/2023
Happy Monday!
This week we would like to recognize, Ruby Bridges.
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana, on November 14, 1960. She was one of six black kids that passed a test that determined whether she could attend an all-white school. Bridges and her mother had to spend her entire first day in the principle’s office due to the uproar of her attendance. She was threatened to be poisoned and burned every day that she walked to school. Yet, this brave kindergartner yes, six-year-old, continued to attend school. Not letting fear stop her from getting an education.
Bridges is now an active civil rights activist, author, icon, and speaker. “A lifelong activist for racial equality, in 1999, Ruby established The Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education. In 2000, she was made an honorary deputy marshal in a ceremony in Washington, DC.” -Womenshistory.org
