{"id":83582,"date":"2025-12-06T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/83582\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:55:11","slug":"bakersfield-hosts-first-ever-ruby-bridges-walk-to-school-day-to-honor-civil-rights-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/83582\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield hosts first-ever &#8216;Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day&#8217; to honor civil rights icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Blue Zones Project and the City of Bakersfield partnered on Friday morning to host the city&#8217;s inaugural &#8220;Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day&#8221; at Williams Elementary School. <\/p>\n<p>The event marked the first year Bakersfield commemorates the walk, which honors Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in the South.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f94472f4-e0ca-437a-a91d-252215fa047d-Sequence_EVERT_1205BLUEZONEWALKTOSCHOOL_0001_frame_25333.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The day aims to educate students about Bridges&#8217; impact and emphasize student safety while walking to school. Volunteers accompanied students on their walk, and upon arrival, students attended an assembly to learn more about Ruby Bridges&#8217; legacy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/afce2cd2-6737-471d-9a19-0f34c072dd7f-Sequence_EVERT_1205BLUEZONEWALKTOSCHOOL_0001_frame_32699.jpeg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Ruby Bridges Foundation, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/rubybridges.foundation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rubybridges.foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the Blue Zones Project, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfield.bluezonesproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bakersfield.bluezonesproject.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Blue Zones Project and the City of Bakersfield partnered on Friday morning to host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-83582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}