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

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

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

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Augusta Jr. Players is gearing up to perform “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges”. During the ...

Thoughtful resources combined with experiential learning guide students to engage with important events in our country’s past ...

When Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old, the civil rights movement came hammering at her door… making her the first African ...

the first black student to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960 at just six years old. “I heard Ruby Bridges was going to be speaking and I was excited to come and see and ...

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Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby ... school was racially integrated. The real-life ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend ... From the moment they left to go to school, Bridges said that day was unlike any other she had experienced. She was 6 and did ...