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 ...

Commemoration Celebration at Rockefeller Chapel on January 29 with featured speaker Ruby Bridges, a civil rights activist who, at the age of six, was the first Black student to attend her elementary ...

curator of the color show. “Ever since they came down, we’ve gotten regular visitor feedback asking to see the ruby red slippers back on display. This was the perfect opportunity.” ...

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SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans, credits her family and faith with overcoming the hate she experienced during those ...

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 ...

Basic Information Early Life Major Contributions Impact on Society Ruby Bridges was born in 1954, the same year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the ...

The event also featured a conversation with civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960 at just six years old.

After graduating high school, she went to nursing school in El Dorado, Arkansas, receiving her RN license, and where she met the love of her life, Arlie H. Bridges. Ruby & Arlie married on August 20, ...