People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...
Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever. Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ...
Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old Black child when she was first to attend a formerly whites-only grade school in Louisiana in November 1960. She had to be ...
In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was ...
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 ...