Tom Llamas sits down with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at just six years old carried the weight of the civil rights movement just by going to school. She describes what it was like to ...
Ruby Bridges may be widely known as the brave Black child who desegregated an all-white school in the South, but it was her mom, Lucille, who put the decision in motion."Brave, progressive, a champion ...
Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges made history at just six years old. She was the first Black student to attend an all-white school in 1960. Now she’s sharing her inspiring story with young readers ...
"I'm also standing on the shoulders and in the shadows of people who made huge sacrifices for all of us," the civil rights activist and author tells PEOPLE It’s been 60 years this month since Ruby ...
Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, has died at the age of 86. In 1960, Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as Ruby ...
NEW ORLEANS — Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student ...