A substitute custodian was arrested at Ruby Bridges Elementary School on July 1 after a student reported to her parents that ...

During a recent House hearing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon was schooled by Democrat Rep. Jahana Hayes over racism.

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first grader in November 1960 when she had to be escorted by federal marshals as the first Black student in her all-white public elementary school in New Orleans.

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about to do. During the height of the Civil Rights ...

Bridges said she wasn't aware of the history she was making when it was happening. "For me in my 5- and 6-year-old mind, (school) was a place to go to meet other kids and have fun.

New Bridge Elementary students walk around Liberty Park in Ogden on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, to honor Ruby Bridges, the first African-American student to integrate a grade school in the South.

In her new children's book, I Am Ruby Bridges, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges tells the story of how she was the first black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school – through the ...

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six ...

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans in 1960. Now ...