People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby ... Bridges said. "I didn't know who they were." From the moment they left to go to school, Bridges said that day was unlike any other she had experienced. She was 6 and did ...

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Augusta Jr. Players is gearing up to perform “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges”. During the ...

When Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old, the civil rights movement came hammering at her door… making her the first African ...

The event also featured a conversation with civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960 at just six years old.

Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby ... school was racially integrated. The real-life ...

After graduating high school, she went to nursing school in El Dorado, Arkansas, receiving her RN license, and where she met the love of her life, Arlie H. Bridges. Ruby & Arlie married on August 20, ...

The Story of Ruby Bridges”. During the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the 6-year-old was the first Black student to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. It’s a role the ...