Ruby Bridges

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Well, you also gave me homework because it reminded me of the story of Ruby Bridges from 1960, where in Louisiana, she was the first Afro-American girl to go to an all-white school and created a whole new wave of... segregation breaking the rules of segregation when she grew up and wanted me to know i asked i wonder what happened her wife found out what happened to her she's now 72 years old she's got four sons she's been married to the same man for years and years and years norman rockwell had painted a beautiful uh painting of her that hung in the white house for years but the main contribution to society is that she became an activist for social rights and to help break segregation and to stand for anything against racism and hatred.

She's done a great job as an activist, and she's still working.

She has an organization that she's funded, and she goes around speaking as an activist all over the country in favor of peace and desegregation and to keep racism at bay.

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Well, you also gave me homework because it reminded me of the story of Ruby Bridges from 1960, where in Louisiana, she was the first Afro-American girl to go to an all-white school and created a whole new wave of... segregation breaking the rules of segregation when she grew up and wanted me to know i asked i wonder what happened her wife found out what happened to her she's now 72 years old she's got four sons she's been married to the same man for years and years and years norman rockwell had painted a beautiful uh painting of her that hung in the white house for years but the main contribution to society is that she became an activist for social rights and to help break segregation and to stand for anything against racism and hatred.

She's done a great job as an activist and she's still working.

She has a organization that she's funded and she goes around speaking as an activist all over the country in favor of

Right.

Well, you also gave me homework because it reminded me of the story of Ruby Bridges from the, from 1960, where, uh, in Louisiana, she was the first Afro-American girl to go to an all-white school and created a whole new wave of, um, segregation, breaking the rules of segregation when she grew up.

And you wanted me to know...

I asked, "I wonder what happened to her." Well, I found out what happened to her.

Michael Jackson dedicated the song Gone Too Soon from his Dangerous album to White, as did 1980s pop star Tiffany with the song Here in My Heart on her new Inside album.

In November 2007, the Children's Museum of Indianapolis opened an exhibit called The Power of Children Making a Difference, which features White's bedroom and belongings alongside similar tributes to Anne Frank and Ruby Bridges.

After White died, Greg Laganis gave his Olympic gold medal to White's mother, and it is now part of the display about White at the Children's Museum.

In April 2015, Laganis visited the Power of Children exhibit with Jean to see his medal in White's recreated room.

That's meaningful.

Ruby Bridges is still alive.

Like I need the people to understand that this history, you know, this, oh, it was so long ago.

It was yesterday in the grand scheme of things.

And here's a girl, outsider Norm, trying to set an example, but it's really the parents doing the social experiment that hasn't even really been approved.

But when we were talking about it at the top of the hour, it started to remind me of the story of Ruby Bridges from 1960.

You know, the little girl, it's the opposite, because she was six years old when they took her from Louisiana, put her into an all-white school, and what kind of abuse and the way maybe she suffered as the only person Afro-American going into a segregated situation and all the white parents took their kids out of school and she ended up having one teacher that taught her the whole time and never gave up on her.

But I wonder how she grew through time and matured, whereas this one we're talking about, I guess it's New York, the fallout and the insecurities, or even by the time she gets to high school, she may not be socially adjusted, not just academically.