{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Civil rights pioneer Ruby Bridges on activism in the modern era","publication_date":"January 14, 2021","summary":"In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in Bridges' footsteps 60 years ago and desegregated the University of Georgia along with Hamilton Holmes, to discuss racism and civil rights in the modern era.","author_name":"By Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Anne Azzi Davenport","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2021\/01\/4a8583b60ed9533041b80ab97ce3ed25-racematters1-e1610677632169-1024x580.jpg","thumbnail_height":580,"thumbnail_width":1024}