“Today our country lost a hero,” wrote Ruby Bridges, now a civil rights icon in her own right, on Instagram. “Brave, progressive, a champion for change. She helped alter the course of so many lives by setting me out on my path as a six-year-old little girl. Our nation lost a Mother of the Civil Rights Movement today. And I lost my mom.”
Lucille Bridges, mother of civil rights movement who accompanied 6-year-old daughter Ruby to desegregate schools, dies at 86
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