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The Jonas Brothers

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Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

And even I didn't realize how bad.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

A man nearby has gotten out of his car.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

He's upset with the stopped traffic and has a medical conference he needs to attend.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

At the same time, the U.S.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

Marshal, Ruby, and her mother get out of the car and were swarmed by a crowd of upset parents and students yelling and chanting, 2468, we don't want to integrate, and holding signs that say things like whites only and no coloreds here.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

As members of the press take pictures, Ruby and Lucille finally make it to the school steps where sheriffs are waiting for them.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

One officer informs them that the governor says they can't enter.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

The deputy marshal explains that the president of the United States says they can.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

With that, the local sheriffs step aside, allowing the group to walk in as protesters angrily chant against integration.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

The man outside of the car who is mad at being stopped can't believe what he's seeing.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

We're now inside the school.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

Teachers are shocked that Ruby was allowed inside, instructing their students to stay in their classrooms.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

Oh, God, it was the teachers, I think, that pissed me off more than anything else.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

Even... It was somebody... Somehow, and I don't know why, but for some reason, it was even worse than the chanting outside to me.

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

Because that's like mob rule and...

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

craziness and the ridiculousness of that but then the people that are sworn educators for children that are treating this girl so horribly something about that struck me and it just pissed me off I don't know what it was there's an aspect of I don't it would in a sense I kind of somehow maybe I'm wrong correct me if it needs to not be in this but like if a doctor

Pod Meets World
Ruby Bridges

And like it's like this oath that they take to like educate the next generation.