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

She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide leadership training programs that inspire youth and community leaders ...

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

Bridges continues her work as a civil rights activist and works with The Ruby Bridges Foundation, which aims to “offer programs and resources to guide and support younger generations on their ...

Bridges later established the Ruby Bridges Foundation, which aims to help younger generations on their way to a better and more peaceful future. Spartanburg spokesperson Christopher George said ...

Bridges has since established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and change through education. Each year on Nov. 14, the foundation leads Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, an annual day ...

Bridges later established the Ruby Bridges Foundation which provides leadership training programs that inspire youth and community leaders to embrace and value the richness of diversity.

Still alive today at the age of 70, she has written books and formed a foundation based on her ... Prime Stage Theatre’s “Look Forward: the Ruby Bridges Story” will run through Jan. 26 ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

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