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Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she doesn't fear 'backlash' with her new 'inspiring' children's book
SOUL TV - Happy 66th Birthday to Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954). She was the first African-American child to desegregate the William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans
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