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 as the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school ... “Dear Ruby,” “Hear Our Hearts” and the just released “A Talk with My Teacher.” ...

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

Baraka Ruhumukiza, a fourth grader at Frank Rushton Elementary ... their teacher brought them a stool to stand on. “Today, I’m going to be talking about why Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day ...

teachers and community members of Paragon Mills Elementary School organized a walk to school to honor Rudy Bridges and school alumni who helped to integrate Nashville schools. Ruby Bridges played ...

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever. Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...