EXCLUSIVE COVERAGE: Two icons of the civil rights era reunited in a replica of a New Orleans school room.  Ruby Bridges Hall desegregated the New Orleans public schools in 1960. Walking her to school everyday were a team of United States Marshals.  The surviving Marshal is a Hoosier, Charles Burks.  He and Bridges were reunited […]

In 1960 Ruby Bridges became the first African-American to desegregate a public elementary school. Her trials in New Orleans became, through a Norman Rockwell painting, a national symbol of the civil rights era.  Afternoons with Amos sat down with Ruby Bridges Hall (her name today) at the Children’s Museum exhibit The Power of Children that […]