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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American student to integrate into an entirely white public school system in New Orleans. She joins Charlayne Hunter-Gault, who followed in ...

Norman Rockwell painted The Problem We All Live With. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old Black girl, being escorted by U ...

My granddaughter attends an integrated school — a gumbo of ethnicities ... While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of all races learn about Black ...

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 ...