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

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans, credits her family and faith with overcoming the hate she experienced during those ...

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

Laney Memorial Stadium to pay tribute to Ruby Bridges’ 66-year legacy and her family’s fight ... Rights Movement from her ...

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 ...

Ruby Cunningham Bridges, 91, left us to go to her Heavenly Home on Saturday, February, 1, 2025. Her family will receive ...

The real-life Bridges faced enormous adversity ... over the choice (and its consequences), Ruby’s battles with loneliness and rejection at school and Henry’s kindness and attention toward ...

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 ... school in Louisiana. Has her story piqued your ...

Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.