RUBY BRIDGES, THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON
RUBY BRIDGES, THE CIVIL RIGHTS ICON Lucille Bridges, the mother of Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges, died on Tuesday, November 10, 2020. She was 86 years old. Before Ruby took part in a Zoom call hosted by the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, on Wednesday night November 11,2020, she honored her mother’s courage. Lucille, she said, wanted her children to have “a better education than she had.” Lucille, Ruby added, was “a champion for change and her actions “altered the course of many lives.” An article by Leah Asmelash of CNN on November 14, 2020 tells how Ruby Bridges became a trailblazer when she was just six years old. On her way to William Frantz Elementary School to begin first grade on that November morning in 1960, six-year-old Ruby was escorted by four Federal Marshalls. All along the way to school a mob of white people kept yelling and they “hurled insults at her.” “I really wasn’t aware of what was going on,” Ruby told NPR in 2010. She did not underst...