Ruby Bridges: I was thinking it wouldn't be cool to have that painting hung at the White House. "I looked around the room and those 12 people that were in the room, they all started to tear up," she says of her meeting with President Obama. He threw his arms around me and leaned over on my shoulder as he whispered in my ear what an honor it is to welcome you into this White House,. That's when it hit me that this moment wasn't really about me and him. It was about the time between us"
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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