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From A Slight Change of Plans: Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges

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🗓️ 5 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We’re sharing a special episode from another podcast, A Slight Change of Plans, from Pushkin

Industries. In this preview, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges shares what it was like to be the first

African-American student to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960. Ruby

was just six years old at the time, and it would be years before she fully appreciated her role in

advancing civil rights in America. Hear the full episode, and more from A Slight Change of

Plans, at https://podcasts.pushkin.fm/scp5?sid=unladylike.

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0:00.0

Hey, and ladies, Kristen here with a little something special for you all today.

0:05.6

It's a preview from another podcast I enjoy called A Slight Change of Plans.

0:11.6

On a Slight Change of Plans, Dr. Maya Shankar, a cognitive scientist who is an expert on human

0:17.2

behavior, examines who we are and who we become in the face of a big change.

0:24.4

We've covered a fair share of life-changing situations and events on Unladylike, so

0:29.7

I think you'll find the stories on a Slight Change of Plans very relatable.

0:35.2

They may even help you navigate the changes in your own life.

0:39.0

In this preview, Maya sits down with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges.

0:44.8

When Ruby was just six years old, she became the very first African American student to

0:50.3

de-segregate William Franz Elementary, an all-white school in Louisiana.

0:56.4

She even had to be escorted to school by US marshals to make sure she wasn't harmed by

1:01.8

protesters along the way.

1:04.6

This was back in the 1960s, and it would take Ruby years to understand how her monumental

1:10.1

experience as a child changed the course of civil rights in America.

1:15.5

Okay, here's the preview.

1:17.7

I hope you enjoy Maya and Ruby's conversation as much as I did.

1:22.5

You can hear the full episode and more from a Slight Change of Plans wherever you get podcasts.

1:29.5

I remember the knock at the door and my parents opened the door and four very tall white

1:44.8

men were standing at the door.

1:47.7

I remember they had these yellow bands on their arms and my thought then was, you know,

1:56.1

who are they?

1:58.8

And not really knowing, but I remember the conversation.

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