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 ...

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 ...

is the same age as Ruby Bridges?” Two things here. She was spot on that her Pop and Bridges are both 70 years young. Cool. But the bigger thing is that Ms. Bridges (now Hall) is an icon of Black ...

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