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, ...

In this July 20, 2006 file photo, Lucille Bridges poses next to the original 1964 Norman Rockwell painting, "The Problem We All Live With," showing her daughter Ruby, inside the Museum of Fine Arts in ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...