in 1954, which found that segregating public school children based on their race was unconstitutional. The decisive strikedown of “separate but equal” schooling occurred months before Bridges was born. Deputy U.S. marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960. AP In the Official Do Not Give Me A Vape Under Any Circumstances No Matter What I Say Shirt and I love this six decades since, students across the country have written letters to Bridges. She’s compiled some of the letters, and her responses, in her new book, “Dear Ruby: Hear Our Hearts.” She is also author of several other books that tell her story. Part of her lingering trauma, Bridges says, is that racism is ongoing. Bridges says she sees her 6-year-old self enduring a lonely and confusing year in the children’s letters. After walking past mobs of protesters, Bridges attended classes alone — and did so for the full year. Some white families permanently withdrew their children from the school because Bridges was a student there. The white students who did remain were kept away from her by the principal, who worked overtime to keep them apart, Bridges said. Bridges’ teacher, Barbara Henry, came from Boston specifically for the job (Bridges has previously said that some of the school’s white teachers had quit, not wanting to teach Black students). By the time her second year began, Bridges no longer needed government escorts, and was part of a classroom with other children. But her legacy remained due to media attention and the striking images of Bridges, alone. Recommended U.S. NEWS Mississippi coroner who buried men without telling their families: ‘I don’t know how to find people’ For her historical and contemporary efforts to put Brown v. Board of Education into practice and desegregate an elementary school, and for her continued fight toward equity since then, Bridges received the Presidential Citizen Medal in 2001 from former President Bill Clinton. She is also a 2024 inductee into the National Women’s Hall of Fame. Now 69, Bridges recalls the moment she “knew” protests outside of Frantz were against her and the memories that resurface while reading letters from
students. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. NBC News: Originally, kids wrote to you about your story. Then, there was a turning point when they started sharing their stories with you. What do you think contributed to that shift? Ruby Bridges: I think they related to the Official Do Not Give Me A Vape Under Any Circumstances No Matter What I Say Shirt and I love this fact that it was a child that they saw. They put themselves in the shoes of this little girl, another child. And I think that made them comfortable enough to want to share their stories with me. NBC News: Students share very similar stories. What does that indicate to you? Bridges: It made me go back to thinking about what that was like for me at 6 years old — not really knowing what was going on around me. We have to understand that kids look to us as adults to protect them, keep them safe. And yet, they see all of this stuff happening around them. I sense that they are really concerned about more than we, as adults, know. A lot of times, we don’t pay enough attention to what we’re doing and the fact that they’re actually watching us, listening to us, imitating us. NBC News: What are some of those memories that their letters have brought up for you? Bridges: What I remember is the fact that no one was really listening to me. We were all going through the motions. I was told what to do and I was a very obedient child. I know that because
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