By Remy Merriex
Meet Ruby Bridges, at 6 years old, she was the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in the south.
For her to attend school her first day, men with guns had to make way through a crowd of grown men and women screaming “nigger”, threatening her life and waving confederate flags.
Nearly all the teachers abandoned the school except for one. In her classroom, all her classmates abandoned the class refusing to sit with the 6 yr old.
For the entire school year, Ruby went to school to a classroom that was just her and the one teacher that didn’t refuse her.
She refused to eat any food that wasn’t pre-packaged and sealed because White protestors frequently threatened to poison her like a rat.
Ruby is only 65 years old today, younger than most of your parents. If you think America doesn’t have dramatic and urgent work to do on racial equity, you still have blinders on.
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