It is already 60 years since the girl Ruby Bridges changed the history of the United States by entering a school for whites | The State

A day like day but from 1960, the girl ruby ​​bridges entered Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, as the first African American student in a segregated college.

6-year-old Bridges entered the elementary school escorted by four federal marshals while a mob of whites yelled insults at her.

The historical scene consists of photos that today are shared by dozens of users in the networks and media in recognition of their bravery and courage.

Her first day as a first grader came four years after a group of black parents in the city of Louisiana filed a lawsuit against the Orleans Town School Board for maintaining black and white segregation. A decision of the Supreme Court in the case “Brown v. Board of Education ”had determined -in 1954- that the state laws that established the division by race in public schools were unconstitutional.

The year Bridges entered the school, Judge J. Skelly Wright ordered desegregation into the district’s public schools.

However, the School Board got the judge to require black students to apply to transfer to any white school.

Thus, that year, only five of the 137 black first-grade students who applied for the transfer were accepted and only four agreed to come to class; among which was Bridges.

In a 2010 interview with NPR, Bridges revealed that he had no idea what to expect.

“For me, being 6 years old, I was not aware of what was happening,” he declared. “I mean, the only thing my parents told me was that I was going to a new school and that I should behave.”

After the student entered the classroom, the rest of the students left the classroom, and for the rest of the year, the teacher only taught her.

The African American, 66 years old today, recalled that the harassment reached the point that some students brought a baby coffin with a black doll inside.

“I used to have nightmares about the box,” said the woman.

Threats against the family continued, with even grocery stores refusing to sell products to Lucille, Ruby’s mother.

The pressure to which they were exposed in an effort to change history left their father Abon without a job and caused the couple to separate.

However, the sacrifice also had good results.

And it is precisely Lucille, who passed away at age 86 this week, that Ruby pays tribute to for what happened on November 14, 1960, when new paths were opened for the African-American community in the United States.

For Ruby, her mother is a “hero”, “champion of change” and “mother of the civil rights movement” today.

“She helped alter the course of so many lives by putting me on the path as a little 6-year-old girl,” the African American shared on her Instagram account on Tuesday.

The post includes a photo of Ruby leaving the campus with her mother and the security team.

In 2011, the now educator and activist was recognized by then-President Barack Obama in the oval office of the White House where she was presented with the Norman Rockwell painting that commemorates her journey to study.

“I think it is fair to say that if it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t be here today,” the then president said to the honoree.