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Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges remembers her friend, child psychiatrist Robert Coles

NPR | By Mary Louise Kelly,
Christopher Harland-Dunaway, Jeanette Woods
Published June 12, 2026 at 4:12 PM EDT

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with civil rights icon Ruby Bridges about her friend, Pulitzer Prize winning child psychiatrist Robert Coles, who died on June 4 at 97.

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Mary Louise Kelly is a co-host of All Things Considered, NPR's award-winning afternoon newsmagazine.
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