When an 8-year-old New Canaan resident was called a racial slur at an incident in Mead Park, he wrote a letter to civil right icon Ruby Bridges asking if she would come speak with students and adults ...
On Nov. 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges was just 6 years old, she unknowingly became an icon for the civil rights movement that was sweeping the country. The first grader made history when she became the ...