Students at Hillsdale Elementary School in West Valley City marked a moment in the country’s civil rights history Thursday by participating in the Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day.
Bridges, who was 6 years old at the time, was the first black student to walk into a previously all-white New Orleans school on November 14, 1960, as segregation began to end in that region of the country. Not warmly greeted at the time, deputy U.S. Marshals escorted Bridges to school that year for her safety.
As students now learn about what happened that day, Thursday’s walk was about inspiring them for the future…