Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of threats and racist slurs to escort her daughter to a formerly all-white school in New Orleans in what became a symbol of opposition to segregation, ...
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Lucille Bridges, mother of Civil Rights Activist Ruby Bridges, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 10. In a statement from The City of New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell offered her ...
Today marks 65 years since Ruby Bridges first integrated an all-white elementary school in the South
In the decades since, Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges has built a life as an activist, author, mother, wife, and more. Today marks 65 years since Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...
Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to enter a formerly all-White ...
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