People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

Columbia University Teachers College, and Tulane University. She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide ...

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans, credits her family and faith with overcoming the hate she experienced during those ...

Ruby Bridges’ quotes reflect her resilience ... For nearly a year, she was taught in a vacant classroom by her teacher, ...

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the ... Encouraged by her teacher, a white woman from the North named Barbara Henry, and her mother Lucille ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first ... White parents removed their children in protest; teachers refused to teach at the school. For the entire year, Bridges was the only ...

All but one teacher — Barbara Henry — refused to ... Prime Stage Theatre’s “Look Forward: the Ruby Bridges Story” will run through Jan. 26 at the New Hazlett Theater on Pittsburgh ...

Ruby Bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated ... Barbara Henry was the only teacher who agreed to teach her, and Bridges was the only child in Henry's first grade class.