Nearly 65 years later, that bond is as strong as ever between Bridges and retired teacher Barbara Henry. "She’s like another mom to me," Bridges said on TODAY on Feb. 18.

ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with civil rights activist Ruby Bridges about her latest ... Bridges' latest book details her reunion with educator Barbara Henry. By ABC NEWS. February 18, 2025, 2 ...

Ruby Bridges and her former teacher Barbara Henry pose after the unveiling of a statue of Bridges for the 54th anniversary of her integrating the school. Photographed on Friday, November 14, 2014.

West Roxbury’s Barbara Henry taught Ruby Bridges during Civil Rights era. Bridget MacDonald. ... 1960, when 6-year-old Ruby Bridges, the first black child to attend the school, ...

Teaching Ruby Bridges ... and thus among the first to desegregate a Southern elementary school. West Roxbury native Barbara Henry, now 82, was Ruby’s teacher.

Inside the school, she met her teacher, Barbara Henry, a white woman, in an empty classroom. The school would be integrated, ... Ruby Bridges: She was 6 when she walked into a segregated school.

Video Clip 2: Ruby Bridges Impact (1:36) Archival television programming that discusses the story of Ruby Bridges is shown. It includes remarks from her teacher Barbara Henry, Dr. Robert Coles and ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges put on a starched dress and new shoes and walked, accompanied by four U.S. Marshals through a torrent of hat. ... Her teacher was Barbara Henry, ...

Only one teacher in the school, Barbara Henry from Boston, agreed to teach her, ... Ruby Bridges, a 6-year-old Black girl, was allowed to enroll in an all-white school.

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges (right) maintains a close relationship with retired teacher Barbara Henry (left), who was her first grade teacher when Bridges integrated a New Orleans elementary ...