Lucille Bridges, mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, dead at 86

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By Gaintman in News
Updated 3 years ago

Lucille Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old daughter Ruby past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school in 1960.

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