How did Ruby Bridges feel about where she lived?

Answer 1

For a little black child living in the south in the era when segregation was still the law, she probably accepted all of the rules because she didn't know anything different. But that doesn't mean she liked them. Consider the fact that she was only six years old when her parents agreed to participate in desegregating the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960. She had moved with her parents from Mississippi (which wasn't much better, in terms of equal rights for black people) to Louisiana only two years earlier, and now, she was going into an all-white school, surrounded by armed white officers who were there to protect her from angry white parents. As I said, she may not have fully understood what was going on, but living that way must certainly have been scary for a young black child.