Bridges was taught by a white teacher named Barbara Henry and was the only student in her class for the entire school year. To commemorate Ruby Bridges, on Wednesday, Nov. 17, Centreville ...

At the event sponsored by Sylvamo, Bridges will host a reading of “A Talk With My Teacher.” The novel pays tribute to Barbara Henry, an educator who supported Bridges while she became a face ...

Bridges will read from her latest work, Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher, which pays tribute to Barbara Henry, the only teacher who stood by her during the 1960 desegregation crisis. The book ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State Long Beach on Wednesday, March 19.

Eventually, the students returned, but none of them was willing to share a classroom with her. Bridges was taught in a classroom by herself by teacher Barbara Henry all year long.

Only one teacher at the school, Boston native Barbara Henry, was willing to work with Bridges. They spent more than a year alone in a classroom, while both of their families endured shunning and ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges (right) maintains a close relationship with retired teacher Barbara Henry (left), who was her first grade teacher when Bridges integrated a New Orleans elementary ...

Nearly 65 years later, that bond is as strong as ever between Bridges and retired teacher Barbara Henry. "She’s like another mom to me," Bridges said on TODAY on Feb. 18.

But for one. BRIDGES: One. Barbara Henry, who actually came from Boston to teach me because teachers actually quit their jobs. They did not want to teach Black kids. And she came from Boston and she ...

But for one. BRIDGES: One. Barbara Henry, who actually came from Boston to teach me because teachers actually quit their jobs. They did not want to teach Black kids.