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 ...

“Today, I’m going to be talking about why Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day should be a holiday, a permanent holiday,” said Baraka Ruhumukiza, a student at Frank Rushton Elementary. His ...

Frank Rushton Elementary students have been a part of a walk-to-school-day effort along several schools throughout the state. Last year, it happened in tandem with Ruby Bridges actually making an ...

Bridges is the subject of a book my granddaughter chose for Black History Month at her elementary school. And she told ... While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month ...

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

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when ... Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, on November 14, 1960, was the first-ever move to desegregate schools in ...