"I'm so glad so many of our young people from across the state ... making Thursday Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day in Kansas. In celebration of the walk Bridges made as she desegregated the ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had ... Shortly after New Orleans public schools desegregated, the city's most prestigious ...

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 ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...

Barbara Ballard, (D)-Lawrence. “And I think Ruby Bridges did something about it, and it was to tell the story.” Another state representative has spent years trying to make this happen.