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Ruby Bridges' new children's book is love letter to her 1st grade teacher: 'She's like another mom to me'
Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her ...
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Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges to speak in Long Beach on Wednesday
Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...
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Ruby Bridges and Integration of New Orleans Schools
On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J. Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever.