The Bridge closes every year for maintenance so that visitors don’t have to smell the fumes from the floor resurfacing and so ...

Disney had a display at Essence Fest with a gazebo similar to what designers say will be used in the new traveling exhibit.

A substitute custodian was arrested at Ruby Bridges Elementary School on July 1 after a student reported to her parents that ...

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects on her experiences as a young girl integrating an all-white school ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about to do. During the height of the Civil Rights ...

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

Bridges said she wasn't aware of the history she was making when it was happening. "For me in my 5- and 6-year-old mind, (school) was a place to go to meet other kids and have fun.

"For me in my 5- and 6-year-old mind, (school) was a place to go to meet other kids and have fun. I loved school and yet all of that was about to change," Bridges said. "I knew nothing about what ...

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.

In her new children's book, I Am Ruby Bridges, civil rights activist Ruby Bridges tells the story of how she was the first black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school – through the ...

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 ...