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Who Was Ruby Bridges?
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges became one of the first Black students to attend an all-white public school ...
Attendees are encouraged to wear purple and brings signs in support of Bridges. This article originally appeared on The ...
Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.
The University held the 35th annual Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) Commemoration Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on January 29 with featured speaker Ruby Bridges, a civil rights activist who, at ...