All of the white teachers at the school refused to teach you, right? So there's a teacher from Boston, Mrs. Henry, who ends up being your teacher for the year. The few teachers that remained in the school really did not want to have anything to do with me. I remember looking at her and thinking, she's white because I had never seen a white teacher before"
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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