The Texas Board of Education and Ruby Bridges: What Whitewashing Looks Like

Send us Fan Mail This is an opportunity to observe whitewashing as it happened. The Texas State Board of Education has been revising social studies standards for students in K-12. One member wanted to remove a description of why Ruby Bridges was special in civil rights history. As the first Black child to enter an all-white school in the American South, Bridges helped open doors that are still opening. In this segment, I provide audio of the Board meeting which demonstrates the majority effor...