Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

From launching community-driven schools to spearheading desegregation and beyond, Black women have been at the helm of ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her ...

Ruby Bridges ... Society Ruby Bridges was born in 1954, the same year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation in public schools unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... After the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision mandated desegregation of public schools ...