Lucille Bridges, mother of activist Ruby Bridges, dies at 86
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November 11, 2020 5:36 AM
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 student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school, has died at the age of 86.
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