Saturday morning the cast of the Augusta Junior Players production of “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges” took a walk to put themselves in her shoes. On November 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was ...

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

Bridges asked. Prejudice today ... citing scenes of white people threatening 6-year-old Ruby as she entered a school. As the ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she ...

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.

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 ...

∎ 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.

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 ...

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 ...