WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

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

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... had been a segregated institution for its 129-year history until February 1963, when 11 black students ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby ... that Bridges will never forget. "I remember that day so well," Bridges said. "All my parents' friends on the street came out. They had already sent their kids to school ...

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

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first ... the world watched as she walked into William Frantz Elementary School past an angry mob—and into history. The civil rights icon will ...

Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story,” written by Natalia Temesgen.

If you have Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend off and are looking for ways to celebrate his legacy, you won't want to miss the chance to hear Ruby Bridges speak in Spartanburg ... per the National ...