TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Today marks “Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day,” and a local school is honoring the civil rights activist’s work with their 3rd annual Ruby Bridges Walk event.

Hundreds of students have gathered at Nosotros Academy to celebrate the legacy of the civil rights leader.

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And that’s not lost on the students of Nosotros Academy.

"She went to school and she started first in kindergarten and she walked in," 2nd Grader Isaac Castillo said. "All the white people were shouting at her because they wanted it just to be a white school.

That’s pretty sad.

Castillo is about the same age as Bridges was at the time, just six years old, when she became the first African American child to integrate an all-white school.

Bridges' courage is

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