Marc Blaine is an award-winning broadcast journalist who joined FOX 13 News Utah from the Scripps sister station in Bakersfield, CA where he served as an evening anchor and reporter for 23ABC News.
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.
'Tiana Angilau wanted to make sure her two children, 5-year-old Mable and 7-year-old Derek, were among the students who walked in Ruby's honor.'It’s important, you know, as people of color, it’s like without her, like we wouldn’t be able to have this opportunity — to be able to attend public schools,' Angilau said.The fact that Bridges went on to become a civil rights activist as an adult is even more inspiring for the students.
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