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Lucille Bridges, who took daughter Ruby to become first Black student at all-white school, dies at 86

Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, who walked with her then 6-year-old daughter past crowds screaming racist slurs as she became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school, has died at the age of 86.

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