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  1. Nov 11, 2020 · Nov. 11, 2020. Lucille Commadore Bridges, who in 1960 broke through the segregated education system of the Deep South by enrolling her 6-year-old daughter, Ruby, in an all-white elementary school ...

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  2. Nov 11, 2020 · Lucille Bridges, Ruby's mother, died Tuesday at the age of 86. Uncredited/AP. Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of threats and racist slurs to escort her daughter to a formerly all ...

  3. Nov 11, 2020 · Lucille Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student at her all-white school. ... Abon Bridges, was initially reluctant to send ...

  4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ruby_BridgesRuby Bridges - Wikipedia

    Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites -only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. [1] [2] [3] She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We ...

  5. Lucille Commadore was born in Tylertown on Aug. 12, 1934. Her parents, who were sharecroppers, were forced from their land when Ruby integrated her elementary school. ... Abon Bridges died in 1978 ...

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  7. Nov 11, 2020 · Nation Nov 11, 2020 11:19 AM EDT. 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 ...

  8. Nov 12, 2020 · Lucille Bridges, mother of civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, dies at 86 00:31. Lucille Bridges, ... Cantrell said Ruby's father, Abon Bridges, was initially reluctant to send his daughter to the all ...

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