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Tulane University: Keynote Speaker Ruby Bridges Encourages Tulane's Class of 2021 to Look to a Brighter Future
May 24, 2021
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 24 (TNSOps) -- Tulane University issued the following news release:

Tulane University saluted the Class of 2021 with a virtual Unified Commencement on Saturday featuring civil rights icon Ruby Bridges that had all the hallmarks of a classic Tulane graduation -- inspiring speakers, rousing musical performances and a New Orleans second-line sendoff.

Bridges, who integrated New Orleans public schools as a first-grader in 1960, told graduates tha . . .

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