C ivil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public ...

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.

A film about a Black first grader who integrated an all-White elementary school in the South is under review in a Florida school district after a parent objected to the movie’s use of slurs and ...

Ruby Bridges National Walk to School Day was Thursday, Nov. 14. Tacoma’s Birney elementary honored the pioneer via a walking school bus.

Director Euzhan Palcy is speaking out about the reversal of a ban on her 1998 Disney film Ruby Bridges in a St. Petersburg, Florida, elementary school. “Truth will out!” Palcy, 65, says in a ...

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 ...

At the age of 6, Bridges became the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Her first day at the school was on Nov. 14, 1960.

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...

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.

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 ...