For its 2021 celebration of the the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Luther King, Jr., Syracuse University will host a virtual keynote address by Ruby Bridges.
In 1960, Bridges became the first African American student to attend an all-white elementary school in the South, and she has continued to fight for equity and civil rights throughout the course of her extraordinary life.
Ms. Bridges' keynote address will take place on Sunday, January 31, 2021, at 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Registration is free and open to all.
Please visit Syracuse University's website for its Annual Celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., for more information about Ruby Bridges and other events that are part of this year's celebration.
Please visit the website of the Ruby Bridges Foundation for more information about and from Ms. Bridges and her extraordinary life and career.
The Story of Ruby Bridges by A re-creation of the trauma faced by a young African American girl who is the first to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans in 1960.
Through My Eyes by In November 1960, all of America watched as a tiny six-year-old black girl, surrounded by federal marshals, walked through a mob of screaming segregationists and into her school. An icon of the civil rights movement, Ruby Bridges chronicles each dramatic step of this pivotal event in history through her own words.
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The Problem We All Live With, a painting by Norman Rockwell based on Ruby Bridges' experience as the first African American student to attend an all-white school in the South.
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