WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach students ...

For Black History Month ... And Savariau said her works of art are inspired by those who inspire her. “I am cutting out the face for Ruby Bridges," said Savariau. “She was a little girl ...

And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is ... class would be discussing Black history. Gaither could not recall if she and her fellow Black students, like Bridges, were jeered at on ...

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...