Ruby Bridges became a civil rights icon when she was 6. Yet she didn't realize it for decades. The world knows her as the little girl in Norman Rockwell's famous 1963 painting, The Problem We All ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. ... the desegregation of public education in the U.S.

Ruby Bridges was only 6 years old when a momentous event transformed her into one of the most important figures in the struggle for equal rights for black Americans. On Nov. 14, 1960, flanked by ...

Memphis, TN, May 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting its eighth Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on Saturday, May 17, featuring celebrated civil rights icon and ...

Students gathered at San Jose City Hall Thursday morning as part of Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, a national commemoration of the historic Civil Rights moment. Notre Dame High School students ...

Ruby Bridges will make her return to the National Civil Rights Museum for her annual reading festival, held on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v.Board decision.

COROLLA, N.C. — Ruby Bridges, a famous Civil Rights icon and the first Black student to integrate into a formerly-segregated White school, is signing books in the Outer Banks on Friday. She was ...

Ruby Bridges first saw racism through the eyes of a child by William (Billy) Johnson February 20, 2024 @ 12:01 am February 16, 2024 @ 4:22 pm. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window ...

Memphis, TN, May 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting its eighth Ruby Bridges Reading Festival on Saturday, May 17, featuring celebrated civil rights icon and ...