Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her ...

Bridges' latest book details her reunion with educator Barbara Henry. Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... am accustomed to ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

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