Elisabeth Griffith

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Editor's Note: Elisabeth Griffith is the author of two acclaimed books on women's history, Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920–2020 and In Her Own Right: the Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She has a PhD in history, and publishes a blog at Pink Threads on Substack. On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked through an angry crowd into a school emptied of other students.