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

Bridges is also the author of four books, some of which have been targeted by critics an inappropriate for schools. Last year ...

It was ultimately featured as one of 12 children’s letters in Bridges’ latest book, titled “Dear Ruby: Hear Our Hearts.” On ...

Still alive today at the age of 70, she has written books and formed a foundation ... Prime Stage Theatre’s “Look Forward: the Ruby Bridges Story” will run through Jan. 26 at the New Hazlett ...

The club focuses on books that have been challenged across Tennessee. In our first two meetings we read “I Am Ruby Bridges” by Ruby Bridges and “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Augusta Jr. Players is gearing up to perform “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges”. During the ...

∎ Was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2024. Eleven-year-old Peiling Jensen holds a book about Ruby Bridges before joining a walk to City First Christian Academy in her honor.

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.