Cartoon Network today (Friday, August 6) premiered a special live-action/animation interstitial, Circle Time with Miss Ruby & Jessica. The short features civil rights icon and activist Ruby Bridges along with Jessica (voiced by Lucia Cunningham) from the Emmy-, GLAAD- and NAACP nominated animated series, Craig of the Creek.
In the spot, Jessica talks with Miss Ruby about her experience being the first Black child to integrate into an all-white school in Louisiana in 1960 and asks what kids can do to be peacemakers today.
Bridges’ book This Is Your Time, released last year, recounts her experience after she was chosen to be one of the first Black students to integrate into an all-white public school in New Orleans. Images of her as a six-year-old child being escorted to class by federal marshals is an enduring visual, and her story hopes to bring peace while appealing to generations to come to effect change.
An extended version of the televised interstitial is available on the Cartoon Network YouTube channel, featuring a special reading from This Is Your Time as well as a Q&A with Bridges.
