Ruby Bridges Blasts Book Bans As “Ridiculous” Attempts to “Cover Up History”

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Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U.S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about American history—including systemic racism and discrimination against LGBTQ people—Bridges has become […]
Julianne McShane