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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A review board voted Monday to continue the use of the 1998 movie “Ruby Bridges” as part of the curriculum at a Florida elementary school, according to Pinellas County Schools. The film came ...

‘Ruby Bridges’ movie under review by Florida school district after parent complaint AP AP/FILE US deputy marshals escort 6-year-old Ruby Bridges from William Frantz Elementary School in New ...

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.