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

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach students ...

Some schools don’t recognize the month ... responses of both White students and students of color. While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of all races ...

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...

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 ...

Republicans on the House Education Committee rejected a bill that would have permanently designated Nov. 14 Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas. Screenshot courtesy of the Kansas Legislature ...