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 ...

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 ...

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 ...