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 ... "She’s like another mom to me," Bridges ...

Lucille Bridges pushed to have Ruby attend the previously ... and she had to be escorted to school each day by her mom and federal marshals. Her brave walk was immortalized in a 1963 painting ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Baraka Ruhumukiza, a fourth-grade student at Frank Rushton Elementary School, spent a snow day with his classmates unlike a kid usually would. On Monday, Ruhumukiza and a ...

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