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The Legacy of 6-Year Old Rub Bridges

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Can you imagine what it must have been like for a little 6-year old girl needing to be escorted to school by federal marshals, all because of the color of her skin? Sadly for Rub Bridges, this was her reality as she attended the William Frantz Elementary School where she was the first black student to be integrated with white students. Sadly, she needed to be protected due to the number of threats and racial slurs she would receive on a daily basis, including parents threatening to remove their kids from school if she continued with her studies. This incredibly young and courageous girl would become one of the faces of the civil rights movement, eventually graduating from high school and starting The Ruby Bridges Foundation in order to work towards equality, tolerance and understanding in America.