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This is a good place for all tweens to start: When they go outside and take a close look at what’s there, they’ve taken the first step in changing the world.

The walk honors Ruby Bridges, who at 6 years old attended an all-white school as a young Black girl in 1960.

Retracing the steps of a civil rights icon, one local high school on Monday remembered Ruby Bridges and the role she played in American history.

UTICA, N.Y. -- Schools across the nation took part in the Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, Monday.

Students of the Medford School District are invited to take part in Ruby Bridges Walk + Roll to School Day November 14th.

Ruby Bridges walked into the first desegrated school on this day 62 years ago. Her story later became the subject of a famous Norman Rockwell painting, titled “The Problem We All Live With”.Sign up to receive This Happened straight to your inbox each day!

Walking together and wearing purple, students from Bay Haven School of Basics Plus commemorated the actions of one brave little girl who, 42 years ago, became the face of integrating schools.

Bridges was the first Black student to integrate the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.

On Nov. 14, 1960, Ruby Bridges walked up the steps to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, and changed American history.

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