It was bitter and sweet that moment. Like now I know. And then sad because he just told me that I wasn't good enough. Do you remember telling your parents that night about this conversation? No. You just kept it to yourself. That is a lot to put on to a six-year-old. It's all the mind of a child. How I coped with it, it's a innocence. Not to downplay it, but I think so many people feel like it's so profound. But it's just the innocence of a child."
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is our guest today. She shares what it was like to be the first African-American student to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960. Ruby was just six years old at the time, and it would be years before she fully appreciated her role in advancing civil rights in America.
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