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 ...

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

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ... forced into your schools." When Bridges, who was guarded by marshals, arrived, she encountered mobs of white parents ...