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 ...

White parents pulled their kids out of the ... escorted by federal marshals. In her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk with ...

It was sad that the parents would not have their kids with her.” “I think it would be ... While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of all races learn ...

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 ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age ... attended formerly all-white schools in New Orleans, but Bridges was the only one to enroll on her own. Her mother accompanied her into the school, but ...