“For me, being 6 years old, I really wasn’t aware of what was going on,” Bridges, now 66, told NPR in 2010. “I mean the only thing that I was ever told by my parents that I was going to attend a new school and that I should behave.”
60 years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked to school and showed how even first graders can be trailblazers
Sixty years ago, Ruby Bridges walked to school escorted by four federal marshals as a White mob hurled insults at her.