Ruby Bridges, who today is an author, speaker and civil rights activist, confirmed the death and said the cause was cancer. Ruby was attending a segregated school when the local school board began testing Black kindergartners to determine who qualified for enrollment in a White school. His daughters, whom Ruby Bridges helped care for, attended William Frantz, which was badly damaged in Hurricane Katrina. The building today is the site of a charter school, Akili Academy, where Room 2306 is the Ruby Bridges Room. Mrs. Bridges was there to be a comfort to her daughter, Henry said, but “unknown to her, she was a comfort and a support for me as well.” She said that Mrs. Bridges remembered her with a Christmas card every year.

Source: Washington Post November 12, 2020 03:30 UTC