The first black child ever allowed to attend a white school is only 68 years old now.
White parents pulled their children from school. White teachers refused to teach her.
Ruby Bridges now works as an activist & public speaker
This wasn’t a million years ago. /1
@TheRealTraceyDelaney
What that brave little girl did with those determined sheriffs has stayed with me through the years; I was in the UK and 12 then, but I caught on to the story not so long after it happened.