Ruby Bridges Footage

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Ruby bridges footage.

Includes historic footage of ruby bridges first day at school and a conversation with her today. She also urged the singer s nearly 180m followers to stay united in the fight to save. In 1960 6 year old ruby bridges made history by walking into an all white school in new orleans breaking the color barrier. Ruby bridges shared never before seen footage of her first day as the first black child at a new orleans school in 1960 on selena gomez s instagram account.

The clip also captures a white mother who chose to keep her child in school fighting back against a crowd of angry segregationists. Now 50 years later the little girl who integrated the william frantz. The black and white footage from the 1961 documentary the children were watching shows hoards of angry white adults and children using racial slurs and federal marshals escorting young bridges to and from school. When recalling the first trip to her school ruby bridges recalls today i saw barricades and.

Ruby bridges shared archival footage from protests outside the school she attended in louisiana in the 1960s.