WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...
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 ...
Norman Rockwell painted The Problem We All Live With. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old Black girl, being escorted by U ...
Republicans on the House Education Committee rejected a bill that would have permanently designated Nov. 14 Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas. Screenshot courtesy of the Kansas Legislature ...
Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...
The bill would designate Nov. 14 as "Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day" in Kansas. Kansas House committee votes down permanent Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges, a six-year ...
Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...