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 ...

Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...

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

Kansas House committee votes down permanent Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges, a six-year-old girl, became one of the first Black students to integrate a school in the South.

“When I first heard about it ... that the Legislature opposed the commemoration to establish Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day as a permanent day of recognition,” Knoell said in a statement ...

And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is set to join ... In 1960, Gaither became the first Black woman to graduate from Frederick High School. But it took until 2023 for Frederick County ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when ... civil rights came to the forefront of America, her journey to school that first day was met with an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted ...