"Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects on her experiences as a young girl integrating an all-white school, ...
Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...
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 ...
Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...
Northshore School District’s Cathi Davis, Principal of Ruby Bridges Elementary, was named Washington State Principal of the ...
The backlash to Bridges’ enrollment at the school was severe ... also the author of several books, including “Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher,” a children’s book published just ...
but their teacher brought them a stool to stand on. “Today, I’m going to be talking about why Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day should be a holiday, a permanent holiday,” said Baraka ...
Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six ... None of the white parents would allow their children to attend the school that day, and all but one teacher refused to show up for work.