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You may have heard the name, Ruby Bridges, who at the age of six desegregated an all-white elementary school. But there were three other girls who had the same experience. For this edition of Monthly with Mosley, we dive into the forgotten histories of Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost, and Leona Tate, who along with Ruby Bridges, desegregated their schools.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans school that was desegregated by a young Ruby Bridges in 1960 officially became a stop on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail as a marker commemorating the event was unveiled Thursday.
Four U.S. Marshals escorted Ruby Bridges, then six years old, into the school while angry crowds shouted and threatened her.
Chalkbeat’s data team looks back at an eventful 12 months covering education across America.
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The new target of book banners and burners are books about race and racism. One of the challenged books in Tennessee is about a 6-year-old Black girl breaking racial barriers in New Orleans. Florida mustn't go down this road.