A substitute custodian was arrested at Ruby Bridges Elementary School on July 1 after a student reported to her parents that ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about to do. During the height of the Civil Rights ...

About 40 Sheldon High School students made their way to Monroe on Thursday for Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, waving signs and cheering as passing cars honked in support.. Across Eugene and ...

RUBY BRIDGES: I had no idea that it was going to be a white school. It wasn't something that my parents explained to me. As a matter of fact, the only thing they said is, Ruby, you're going to go ...

A new Civil Rights Trail marker stands is unveiled at William T. Frantz Elementary School, now named Akili Academy, where Ruby Bridges attended and made Civil Right history, photographed at 3811 N ...

How Ruby Bridges made school integration history at 6, while racists screamed at her Eight-minute read. Charles Daye. Asbury Park Press.

The film’s namesake, Ruby Bridges, was 6 when she became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Flanked by four federal marshals ...

Director Euzhan Palcy is speaking out about the reversal of a ban on her 1998 Disney film Ruby Bridges in a St. Petersburg, Florida, elementary school. “Truth will out!” Palcy, 65, says in a ...

In 1960, at the age of six, Ruby Bridges was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Now she shares the lessons she learned with future generations.

Ruby Bridges poses next to a cutout of herself at age 6 at the Children’s Museum in Indianapolis. She was the first black child to attend the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in ...