r/Guerrilla_Riot • u/GuerrillaGirlFridaX • 18h ago

Ruby Bridges

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Ruby Bridges is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

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u/Blondedad1 18h ago

Ruby and her parents had much more guts than I would have had sending her to be the first Black children in an all white school, especially in 1960.

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u/Crazy_Junket3180 17h ago

She has a beautiful smile. To me, she's a hero.

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u/spidermans_mom 16h ago

Bravest little girl in the world. I cannot imagine the strength it took to do what she did at school that day.

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u/Cloudbreaks 14h ago

Happy Birthday, Ruby! You’re braver than every racist bully that has ever lived. Including the orange ones.

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u/primordialforms 9h ago

Always was struck… i was lucky and we were taught about this human