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A national civil rights icon is on a mission in Memphis to promote literacy and education for all.
It’s a cause Ruby Bridges has devoted her life to.
Even as a young girl, she helped end segregation in schools across the country as the first African-American child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans.
That historic moment was immortalized in this Norman Rockwell painting that now hangs in the White House.
- The Ruby Bridges Reading Festival
- Saturday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Nat’l Civil Rights Museum
- 450 Mulberry St.
- (901) 521-9699
