Ruby Bridges became a civil rights icon when she was 6. Yet she didn't realize it for decades. The world knows her as the little girl in Norman Rockwell's famous 1963 painting, The Problem We All ...

Ruby Bridges Exhibition Label Marion Coleman born 1946, Wichita Falls, TX died 2019, Oakland, CA Ruby Nell Bridges ... creating a visual contrast between words that uphold segregation and words that ...

Nearly 65 years later, that bond is as strong as ever between Bridges and retired teacher Barbara Henry. "She’s like another ...

Ruby Bridges will make her return to the National Civil Rights Museum for her annual reading festival, held on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v.Board decision.

Later this month, she’ll play the lead in “Look Forward,” the story of Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate the Louisiana school system in 1960. Log out Log ...

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

Join Lakemont Elementary School at 8:45 a.m. on Thursday, November 14 to honor the legacy of Ruby Bridges and her courageous journey toward desegregation. “Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day” is ...

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first grader in November 1960 when she had to be escorted by federal marshals as the first Black student in her all-white public elementary school in New Orleans.

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 ...