In , the museum loaned the work to be displayed in the West Wing of the White House for four months upon the request of President Barack Obama. In , Robert Coles, Bridges' child psychologist and a Pulitzer-Prize winning author, published The Story of Ruby Bridges, a children's picture book depicting her courageous story.
Bridges was inspired following the murder of her youngest brother, Malcolm Bridges, in a drug-related killing in — which brought her back to her former elementary school. She soon began to volunteer there three days a week and soon became a parent-community liaison. With Bridges' experience as a liaison at the school and her reconnection with influential people in her past, she began to see a need for bringing parents back into the schools to take a more active role in their children's education.
Bridges launched her foundation to promote the values of tolerance, respect and appreciation of differences. Through education and inspiration, the foundation seeks to end racism and prejudice. As its motto goes, "Racism is a grown-up disease, and we must stop using our children to spread it.
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Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to integrate an all-white public elementary school in the South. She later became a civil rights activist. Olivia Rodrigo —. Megan Thee Stallion —. Bowen Yang —. The time in between and all of that hard work, and sacrifice, and protesting, and lives lost that brought these two people together at that moment in this White House. He sort of whispered in my ear and he said, "I cannot begin to tell you what an honor it is to welcome you into this White House under this administration.
I always believe that if we are going to get past our racial differences, it's going to come from our kids, and it seemed to me the best place for kids to really get to know one another was in schools.
They spend the majority of their day in schools, probably more than they spend at home. And so I believe that schools should be integrated. That will allow them an opportunity to get to know one another. I'm very optimistic about it. I spent so much of my time, the last 25 years, in schools all across the country, speaking to kids about my experience and trying to get them to understand that racism really has no place in the hearts and minds of our children.
I believe that if we are to get past our racial differences, it's definitely going to come from our young people. Everybody remembers you as the 6-year-old girl in the white dress. What do you want them to know about the grown-up, confident, successful Ruby Bridges today? Oh, my God. I don't know who that is. Grown-up, confident. What I'd like for them to know is I've tried to stay true to who I am. I've tried to be obedient to the lesson that I learned in the first grade and that my work has really been about bringing people together, but I chose to do it through our kids.
That's the path that I want to be on. I want to see the fruits of that labor. And I think I'm beginning to see it. What I found really amazing and really spoke to me was that John Lewis dedicated his whole life to this work, and I believe that when you accept this sort of work, it's not a job.
It's a calling. It would be the same advice that the federal marshals gave me. They said, "Ruby, walk straight ahead and don't look back. I think that would be my advice to all of us who were on this path and want to see a better world for our children. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Facebook Twitter Email.
Women of the Century: Ruby Bridges says "it's a calling" to accept working for civil rights. These exams determined whether African American students could compete academically at an all-white school.
Ruby and five other students passed the test. Two students decided to stay at their school. On November 14, Ruby and her mother were escorted into the William Frantz Elementary School by four federal marshalls. This escort continued all year. Despite the racial slurs, screaming crowds, and only having one teacher willing to accept her, Ruby did not miss a day of school.
The community was torn. On November 14, , at the age of six, Ruby became the very first African American child to attend the all-white public William Frantz Elementary School. Ruby and her Mother were escorted by federal marshals to the school. When they arrived, two marshals walked in front of Ruby, and two behind her. Ruby faced blatant racism every day while entering the school. Many parents kept their children at home. People outside the school threw objects, police set up barricades.
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