#lucille bridges

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UNSUNG MAMA HERO: November 1960 - Ruby Bridges holds tightly to her mother’s hand as she enters into an angry mob to check into school each day. Ruby’s mom, Lucille Bridges made sure her daughter knew she was safe and was like a shield in every respect by her little girl’s side as she set out to change a nation. 

I remember feeling fear once” stated Ruby. “I remember an angry white woman holding a little coffin with a Black doll and her screaming how she would hang me.” “I hesitated and my mother looked me in the eye and said, she won’t hurt you, I’ll see to that. I believed my mother and I kept walking!” Ruby Bridges-Hall is a wife, mother and grandmother.

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[posttexasstressdisorder]

Ruby’s mom Lucille passed away.  They are true American Heroes.  Much respect for this brave woman, and heartfelt condolences to Ruby.

[coochiequeens]

Gone but not forgotten: 12 trailblazing women we lost in 2020

As we usher in the New Year, Know Your Value looks back at the influential, groundbreaking women we lost in 2020.

“These 12 remarkable women fought tirelessly to make waves in science, politics, the arts and more throughout their lives — often way ahead of their time. They will not be forgotten.”

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Ms.Lucille Bridges, the mother of Ruby Bridges has passed away. This woman helped fight for the right for her daughter to attend school and fight segregation. She led her 6 year old daughter through a crowd of white Americans, who were angry at the thought of a black person being allowed to intermingle among their kids. She faced slurs and threats head on to fight for a better future. That day in New Orleans made history as she sought to provide an education for her daughter that she couldn’t have.

May she Rest In Peace with the knowledge of the power she gave to the generations following her and may the fight continue in her honor to bring total equality and rights to the continuing generations

[gone2soon-rip]

LUCILLE BRIDGES (1934-Died November 10th 2020,at 86.Cancer).Lucille Bridges was the mother of Ruby Bridges. Bridges had to accompany her daughter to school for one year in 1960–61 because of white protesters in New Orleans. Ruby was the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the Southern United States.Bridges enrolled her daughter Ruby in the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans and went to the school for the first time on November 14, 1960, under the escort of federal marshals.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Bridges  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Bridges

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60 years ago today, Ruby Bridges integrated a New Orleans school...

[starqueen87]

Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, has died at the age of 86 on November 10, 2020. In 1960, Bridges walked with her then-6-year-old daughter past crowds of screaming white racist when her daughter became the first to integrate all-white New Orleans elementary schools.

Lucille was born on August 12, 1934 to Mississippi sharecroppers at a time when Black children rarely went beyond the 3rd grade. Her family later moved to New Orleans. She gave birth to Ruby in 1954, the same year as the landmark Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education, which struck down the decades-old "separate but equal" doctrine, ending segregation in the schools.

Her daughter went on to become an icon of the Civil Rights Movement, memorialized in Norman Rockwell’s famous painting “The Problem We All Live With” New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said in a statement Tuesday night that Lucille Bridges is "one of the mothers of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans." She said the city mourns her loss.