NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A key figure in the New Orleans civil rights movement will deliver the keynote address during online graduation ceremonies at Tulane University.
Tulane announced in a news release that Ruby Bridges will speak during the university’s unified commencement event on Saturday, May 22.
Bridges was 6 years old when she enrolled in 1960 as the first Black student at a New Orleans elementary school.
She was escorted past crowds screaming racist slurs, an event memorialized in Norman Rockwell’s famous painting “The Problem We All Live With.”