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 ...

Earlier this month, the parent wouldn't allow her child to watch the 1998 Disney movie "Ruby Bridges," which tells the real-life story of a 6-year-old girl who was among the first Black students ...

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 ...

Ruby Bridges talked in the late ’90s about the importance of Disney making a movie about how, as a first-grader, she became a civil rights icon by wading through a White mob to integrate an ...

The 1998 film “Ruby Bridges” will continue to be part of the elementary school curriculum. San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. A few days after the viewing, parent Emily Conklin filed a ...

This month, an elementary school in St. Petersburg, Fla., stopped showing a 1998 Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated a public elementary school in New Orleans ...

The Disney movie “Ruby Bridges,” which tells the tale of a 6-year-old who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s, has been a staple of Pinellas County Black History Month lessons for ...

The movie had been part of the Pinellas County Black History Month curriculum for years. Ruby Bridges’ Film Banned Black News and Black Views with a Whole Lotta Attitude ...

Two weeks before the movie was shown to second graders at North Shore Elementary, permission forms were sent to the students' parents along with a link to the "Ruby Bridges" trailer, Mascareñas said.

A movie on civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is under review after a St. Petersburg, Florida, parent filed a complaint stating the movie teaches students racial slurs. Skip Navigation.