JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Ruby Bridges, who faced threats and harassment when she integrated a southern school as a child several decades ago, said Friday that she is distressed by mass shootings in U.S. schools....
Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges: Ban Assault Weapons
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press: Nation
Fri, 02/23/2018 - 8:02pm
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04/30/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link - National Civil Rights Museum Hosts its 7th Ruby Bridges Reading Festival
The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting the Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on Saturday, May4, in partnership with civil rights and literacy advocate Ruby Bridges for the seventh year. The free ...
04/29/2024 - 8:08 am | View Link - Ruby Bridges Reflects On Historic 1960 School Integration
Ruby Bridges is looking back on becoming a pivotal part of the civil rights movement in the American South. Bridges, now 69, became the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz ...
04/28/2024 - 11:59 am | View Link - Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History”
Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to ...
04/28/2024 - 9:50 am | View Link - 'What protected me was the innocence of a child': Ruby Bridges reflects on 1960 school integration
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges reflects on the day she made history by attending a newly desegregated Louisiana school in 1960.
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