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 ...

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects ...

She has also established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to provide leadership training programs that inspire youth and community leaders to embrace and value the richness of diversity. Bridges has ...

Lucille Bridges pushed to have Ruby attend the previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School so that Ruby would have better educational opportunities than she did Rachel DeSantis is a ...

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

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ... forced into your schools." When Bridges, who was guarded by marshals, arrived, she encountered mobs of white parents ...