Ruby Bridges Hall
EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Civil Rights Icon Ruby Bridges Reunites With US Marshal Who Protected Her In 1960’s
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 […]
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