Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of threats and racist slurs to escort her daughter to a formerly all-white school in New Orleans in what became a symbol of opposition to segregation, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Lucille Bridges, mother of Civil Rights Activist Ruby Bridges, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 10. In a statement from The City of New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell offered her ...

Ruby Bridges has transformed her childhood role as a civil rights pioneer into lifelong activism, continuing to advocate for educational equality and tolerance 65 years after making history at age six ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...

Ruby Bridges was born on Sept. 8, 1954, which coincidentally was the same year in which the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Brown v. Board of Education to end segregation in public schools. She ...

In 1960, she braved death threats and racial epithets to accompany her daughter to the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans,... Lucille Bridges, who in 1960 braved a gauntlet of ...

Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old when she became the first Black child to go to a formerly all-White school in New Orleans Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to enter a formerly all-White ...