The Civil Rights Activist Sharing Her Story With A New Generation
b'Ruby Bridges was just six years old in 1960 when she became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
She was escorted by four federal marshals and greeted by a mob of angry white protesters.
Today, Bridges is a civil rights activist and author, and she is sharing her experience with a new generation of kids in her latest children\'s book, I Am Ruby Bridges.
Bridges tells her story through the eyes of her six-year-old self and talks about what today\'s children can learn from her experience.
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