The Icon Formation of Ruby Bridges Within Hegemonic Memory of the Civil Rights Movement
In 1960, when Ruby Bridges was six-years-old, she desegregated the formerly all white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This thesis traces her formation as a Civil Rights icon and how her icon narratives are influenced by, perpetuate, or challenge hegemonic memory of the Ci...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2019
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| Online Access: | https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1407 https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2383&context=scripps_theses |