The below was posted to Ruby Bridges Instagram in early august. I'm not on insta much so I missed it. I am sharing it in case you too have not seen it. This is not an endorsement, it's an FYI. If you act a fool in my mentions or want to argue about it I'm going to block you.
I learned about her as "history" and some years later found out we are practically contemporaries. Knowing that shifted stuff in my brain.
This still blows my mind: bsky.app/profile/torr...
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is younger than Bob Dylan’s first album.” 2022: “Ruby Bridges is only 67 years old - “I knew that I was going to go to a new school,” Bridges explained. I really did not know who the four very tall White men were.“ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @pbump.com
America's history of segregation is walking around us.
She’s absolutely amazing. I read her book and we watch one of her talks in my K class.