Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges to Speak at Methodist University's Spring Convocation
January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019
FAYETTEVILLE, North Carolina, Jan. 31 -- Methodist University issued the following news release:
Wearing a white cardigan, ruffled socks and carrying a plaid satchel at her side, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked past an angry crowd and into history on the morning of Nov. 14, 1960.
Six years after Brown v. Board of Education had mandated school desegregation, Ruby Bridges would become the first African-American child to break the school color barrier in the South. Accomp . . .
Wearing a white cardigan, ruffled socks and carrying a plaid satchel at her side, six-year-old Ruby Bridges walked past an angry crowd and into history on the morning of Nov. 14, 1960.
Six years after Brown v. Board of Education had mandated school desegregation, Ruby Bridges would become the first African-American child to break the school color barrier in the South. Accomp . . .