When Bridges saw people take to the streets over the summer to protest the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, she says she felt “it was about time” for action.
The first-grader was the only Black child enrolled in the school, where parents of white students boycotted the court-ordered integration law and took their children out of school. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in November of 1960. is doomed to repeat history if the nation doesn’t learn from its past, she says. Capitol insurrection.Īs a first-grader in 1960, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to desegregate an elementary school in New Orleans. These inequities are laid bare by the police killings of Black people, the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color, and the differences in treatment of far-right extremists at the U.S. is confronted with the massive inequality that still exists in our country. The timeless message of the “I Have A Dream” speech holds even more resonance on this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. (Courtesy) This article is more than 2 years old. Ruby Bridges delivers commencement address at Rhode Island College in 2019.
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