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4meAndyou · F
Ruby Bridges is a 1998 television film, written by Toni Ann Johnson, directed by Euzhan Palcy and based on the true story of Ruby Bridges, one of the first black students to attend integrated schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1960.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/ruby-bridges
Needless to say, I had to look her up, but I do remember hearing about her.
I can't even imagine what she went through at school.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@4meAndyou As an adult, she wrote about this experience in the Christian magazine Guideposts. I read it online yesterday, and it sounds as if the movie was pretty accurate.
She wrote about how her family's Christian faith is what got her through this. Each morning, she would pray for the people in the angry crowd of protestors, praying Jesus' prayer from the cross: " Father, forgive them. They know not what they do."
She was six years old.
She wrote about how her family's Christian faith is what got her through this. Each morning, she would pray for the people in the angry crowd of protestors, praying Jesus' prayer from the cross: " Father, forgive them. They know not what they do."
She was six years old.
