C ivil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public ...

New Bridge Elementary students walk around Liberty Park in Ogden on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, to honor Ruby Bridges, the first African-American student to integrate a grade school in the South.

But she courageously walked past angry crowds to enter her first grade, escorted by federal marshals. In her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher," she shares a personal story about ...

Bridges recalled the differences between getting ready for her first day of kindergarten at a segregated school for Black children and getting ready for her first day of first grade.

But the same morning that Bridges faced fulminating White mobs to enter the first grade at William Frantz Elementary, three other 6-year-old African American girls braved the same gauntlet as they ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans ...

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

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 ...