I was 6," Bridges said. The Civil Rights Movement ... citing scenes of white people threatening 6-year-old Ruby as she ...

People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

When Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old, the civil rights movement came hammering at her door… making her the first African ...

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

On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J ... Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate ... race and the nation. The event will begin at 6 p.m. at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. The evening’s program ...

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.

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent ...

Ruby Bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school ... ∎ Was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2024. Eleven-year-old Peiling Jensen holds a book about Ruby Bridges ...