This week we’re honoring civil rights icon, activist, author, and speaker, @rubybridgesofficial. A living legend, who reminds us that some history isn’t as distant as we think. Though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Brown v Board of Education (1954), to outlaw segregation in schools the year that Ruby was born, many Southern states refused to comply with the law. Six years later, in 1960, Ruby became the first Black student to integrate a formerly all-white school in Louisana. As Ruby walked to school each day during her first year, she was escorted by federal marshalls who were called in to protect her from an angry mob outside the school that hurled objects and racist slurs at her. Though only one teacher agreed to teach her and she could not learn or play with the other children, Ruby did not miss a single day of school that year. Ruby graduated from a desegregated high school, became a travel agent, married, and had four sons. A lifelong activist for racial equality, in 1999, Ru...