Ruby Bridges to Speak at UChicago's 2025 MLK Commemoration
January 16, 2025
January 16, 2025
CHICAGO, Illinois, Jan. 16 -- The University of Chicago issued the following news:
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Civil rights icon to discuss her experience integrating New Orleans schools at age six
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Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans' public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she walked into William Frantz Elementary School past an angry mob--an . . .
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Civil rights icon to discuss her experience integrating New Orleans schools at age six
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Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans' public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she walked into William Frantz Elementary School past an angry mob--an . . .