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Nov 11, 2020 · Lucille Bridges, Ruby's mother, died Tuesday at the age of 86. Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of threats and racist slurs to escort her daughter to a formerly all-white school in ...
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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Nov 11, 2020 · Cantrell said Ruby’s father, Abon Bridges, was initially reluctant to send his daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School as a first-grader in 1960, at the request of the NAACP ...
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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Nov 12, 2020 · U.S. Deputy Marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, in this November 1960, file photo. 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-white ...
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 ...
Nov 11, 2020 · Lucille Bridges poses next to the 1964 Norman Rockwell painting, "The Problem We All Live With," that depicts her daughter, Ruby, desegregating her school accompanied by federal agents.
