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

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby ... Black children to integrate white schools. Though when the day came, Bridges would become known for walking her path alone. She is remembered for the two ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

The Ruby Bridges Story,” written by Natalia Temesgen. The hour-long production gives a compact and compassionate introduction to the story of Bridges who, at 6 years old, was the first Black ...

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.