By Kelley Gaskill Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Eventually every area of the country took its first steps into integration including the Eastern Shore when, in 1964, then Jaqueline Wise was the first African American student to attend ...
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