This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New Orleans ...

“Ruby Bridges was selected, because she’s relatable to our second-graders as she is a 6-year-old. And after the movie, we had a post discussion,” one teacher said.

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 ...

A parent complained that the movie might teach white children to hate Black children. U.S. deputy marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, La ...

The film’s namesake, Ruby Bridges, was 6 when she became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Flanked by four federal marshals ...

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 ...

Disney movie about school integration deemed ‘inappropriate’ for young children. Earlier this year, a Florida school district banned the Disney movie “Ruby Bridges” after a parent ...

Ruby Bridges is speaking out on efforts to ban books — including her own. Bridges testified that when she heard about efforts like these, she initially didn't respond because it "didn't deserve ...

This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Florida, stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New ...