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After complaining to North Shore Elementary School that the Disney movie “Ruby Bridges” would teach white children to hate Black children, Pinellas County schools banned it from that school until further review.
Emily Conklin complained in early March that the use of racial slurs and threats from white people to a Black child may teach kids white people hate Black people.
The movie depicts the strength and resilience of Ruby Bridges, who at 6 years old was the first to desegregate an all-white school in 1960 New Orleans, a move that caused so much outrage she required National Guard escorts.
– Staff reports, Florida Politics, The Tampa Bay 100