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 ...

In her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher," she shares a personal story about the teacher who helped her ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story ... because from where we came from to where we are now,” she said, “it is about the right you have that ...

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

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 ...