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

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 ...

"Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects on her experiences as a young girl integrating an all-white school, highlighting the lessons learned and the importance of resilience and ...

I told my granddaughter that Bridges started school in 1960 ... of affirmative responses of both White students and students of color. While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black ...

“Today, I’m going to be talking about why Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day should ... became the first Black student to attend an all-white school in the South. “We do have a Black History ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at ... tradition into separate schools for black and white students. Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, on November 14, 1960, was ...