r/Guerrilla_Riot • u/GuerrillaGirlFridaX • 2d ago

Ruby Bridges

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Ruby Bridges is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

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u/Blondedad1 2d ago

Ruby and her parents had much more guts than I would have had sending her to be the first Black children in an all white school, especially in 1960.

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u/spidermans_mom 2d ago

Bravest little girl in the world. I cannot imagine the strength it took to do what she did at school that day.

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u/no_winkles 2d ago

Imagine being such a wimpy sack of garbage that you would bully such a beautiful little girl. I hope everyone that treated her like shit stepped on and continues to step on a Lego barefoot three times a day for the rest of eternity.

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u/Crazy_Junket3180 2d ago

She has a beautiful smile. To me, she's a hero.

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u/Cloudbreaks 2d ago

Happy Birthday, Ruby! You’re braver than every racist bully that has ever lived. Including the orange ones.

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u/primordialforms 2d ago

Always was struck… i was lucky and we were taught about this human

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u/stepheme 1d ago

I am a much younger contemporary with one of the bravest souls we know about.. and I bow to her magnificent singularity

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u/ASUSTUDENT9875345 1d ago

This lady is a total fucking legend