Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...

Republicans on the House Education Committee rejected a bill that would have permanently designated Nov. 14 Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas. Screenshot courtesy of the Kansas Legislature ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach ...

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

It wasn’t until 1960 that a six-year-old girl named Ruby Bridges courageously became the first to integrate William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. She was escorted to school by federal ...

And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is set to join the ... at the city’s William Frantz Elementary School. The backlash to Bridges’ enrollment at the school was severe.