People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

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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 ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans, credits her family and faith with overcoming the hate she experienced during those ...

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.

And Stacia Paglieri lit up the classroom set as Henry, perfectly donning the mantle of a caring elementary school teacher ... s “Look Forward: the Ruby Bridges Story” will run through Jan ...

Ruby Bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school. Now she teaches children ... Bridges' second year of attending William Frantz Elementary, when she no longer had to be escorted by ...