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Friday marks the 65th anniversary of Ruby Bridges becoming the first Black student to desegregate her New Orleans elementary school. 

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Sixty-five years ago, Ruby Bridges bravely integrated a New Orleans school, opening doors for Black children. Her courage still teaches us about equality today.

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Cartoonist Glenn McCoy who caught heat Tuesday for depicting U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos as Ruby Bridges -- the African-American girl in Norman Rockwell's southern school desegregation painting "The Problem We All Live With" -- explained his controversial decision Wednesday.