Lucille Bridges
Civil Rights Leader
Civil rights icon who pushed for her daughter Ruby Bridges to integrate the previously all-White William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1960. In 2020 she was called one of the mothers of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans by then-New Orleans mayor LaToya Cantrell.
She was born in Mississippi to sharecroppers.
She gave birth to her daughter Ruby in 1954, the same year as the landmark Supreme Court de-segregation ruling Brown vs. The Board of Education. She has been featured in the National Women's History Museum.
She passed away in November 2020.
She and Rosa Parks are considered mothers of the Civil Rights movement.