Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges ... best friend," Bridges said. "I didn't have any friends, and I had gotten so close to her. "And I was so excited about going back for second grade, telling ...

On November 14, 1960, a 6-year-old girl walked into William J ... and by the time Bridges began second grade the next year, she was joined by a few other black students as well as returning ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...