What’s it like to live Black history? Ruby Bridges has some thoughts

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year.

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year.

“On the plane, everybody’s standing up, got their bag and this lady says, ‘Are you Ruby Bridges?’ And I looked at her and I said, ‘No,’” she recalled.

Through a fit of laughter, Bridges said, “And then she said, ‘Oh, because you look so much like her.’ I felt so bad when I walked out of the plane. But I was like, I am not opening up this, not right here.”

“It just wasn’t the time and place,” she said. “That was going to open the door for more questions.”

That may not have been the moment for Bridges to speak about her legacy — but her sit-down interview is.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/s-live-black-history-ruby-bridges-thoughts-rcna136754

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