Ruby Bridges has long been a civil rights icon. The first African-American child to desegregate an all-white school in New Orleans, she helped catalyze federal enforcement of desegregation and continues to inspire movements for educational equity.
A montage of obituaries and tributes marks the passing of Robert Coles, the Harvard psychiatrist and writer known for Children of Crisis. Reports note his pioneering fieldwork with children across the United States, his Pulitzer-winning volumes, and his insistence on listening to the voices of youth as a window into social upheaval.