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Sample caption, Lojuandas Mardi Gras toon will be added tomorrow morning before this story is scheduled to publish It was Nov. 14, 1960 when an African American 6-year-old girl named Ruby Bridges was set to start first grade at an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Every day for that year, Bridges was escorted by U.S. Marshals and was met with angry crowds yelling racial slurs and threats. White parents began to remove their children from her class and all but one teacher wanted to teach her. Despite these hardships, Bridges persevered, and soon the crowds thinned and the school had ...

Bridges, a civil rights activist and bestselling author, is best-known for being the first Black student to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School.

Ruby Bridges to speak at SU’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Lucy Messineo-Witt / Staff Photographer Rev. Raphael Warnock, last year's keynote speaker, was recently elected as Georgia's first Black senator. Facebook Google+ The Daily Orange is a nonprofit newsroom that receives no funding from Syracuse University. Consider donating today to support our mission. Civil rights activist and bestselling author Ruby Bridges will be the keynote speaker for Syracuse University’s annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, SU announced Monday.  Bridges was one of the firs...