Ruby being escorted from her school

Barbara Henry and Ruby Bridges

(Alamy)

Karen:

Ruby Bridges

Episode sources:

1. “Through My Eyes” by Ruby Bridges

2. “A Slight Change of Plans: A 6-Year-Old Changes History” by Dr. Maya Shankar (Pushkin/iHeart,  2022)

3. “Ruby Bridges and the Integration of New Orleans Schools” (PBS American Experience)

4. “Ruby Bridges” by Shay Dawson (National Women’s History Museum, 2025)

5. “J. Skelley Wright Digital Exhibit” (Loyola University New Orleans)

6. “Ruby’s story” (The Ruby Bridges Foundation)

7. “60 Years Ago: Ruby Bridges’ historic steps” (WWLTV, 2021)

8. “Jim Crow Literacy Test – Can You Pass?” (Southern Poverty Law Center)

9. “Ruby Bridges” (EBSCO, 2024)

10. “Where Is Ruby Bridges Now? All About Her Life 65 Years After Famously Desegregating an All-White Elementary School at Age 6” by Lynsey Eidell (People, 2025)

11. “Lucille Bridges, 86, Dies; Led Her Daughter Across a Color Line” by John Ismay (New York Times) 2020

12. “White Mobs Violently Riot Against Six-Year-Old Ruby Bridges Integrating Elementary School” (Equal Justice Initiative)

13. “Slavery By Another Name: Sharecropping as Slavery” (PBS, 2012)

14. “Meet 3 unsung civil rights pioneers who helped desegregate schools in New Orleans” by Jamie Wax and Analisa Novak (CBS News, 2023)

15. “Ruby Bridges' new children's book is love letter to her 1st grade teacher: 'She's like another mom to me'” by Scott Stump (Today, 2025)

16. “McDonogh Three” (Wikipedia)

Georgia:

George Remus, The King of Bootleggers

Episode sources:

1. “The Rise and Fall of the Bootleg King” by Bob Batchelor (American Heritage, 2022)

2. “Throwback Thursday: Cincinnati’s Most Notorious Bootlegger, George Remus” (Cincinnati Public Library, 2021)

3. “Cincinnati Curiosities: George Remus' Famous NYE Party” (Cincy Lifestyle, 2022)

4. “As New Year 1922 Dawned, Cincinnati Enjoyed Peace and Booze” by Greg Hand (Cincinnati Magazine, 2022)

5. “The temperance movement linked booze to domestic violence. Did it have a point?“ by Moira Donegan (The Guardian, 2020)

6. “Convicted Robber Gone: Judge Upraids Lawyer” (Chicago Tribune, October 14, 1914)

7. “Bribe Tendered to Shield Wife?” (Chicago Tribune, 1914)

8. “That Plumber Sure Stirred Up Remus Family” (Chicago Tribune, 1919)

9. “Remus Found Not Guilty of Murder” (The Escanaba Daily Press, 1927)

George Remus

Imogene Remus

Recommendation Corner

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