Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had ... Shortly after New Orleans public schools desegregated, the city's most prestigious ...

"I'm so glad so many of our young people from across the state ... making Thursday Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas. In celebration of the walk Bridges made as she desegregated the ...

Barbara Ballard, (D)-Lawrence. “And I think Ruby Bridges did something about it, and it was to tell the story.” Another state representative has spent years trying to make this happen.

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...

Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...