WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Today, I’m going to be talking about why Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day should be a holiday, a permanent holiday,” said Baraka Ruhumukiza, a student at Frank Rushton Elementary. His ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach ...

In the 1960s, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American ... became the first Black student at her all-white New Orleans elementary school in 1960.

Bridges is the subject of a book my granddaughter chose for Black History Month at her elementary school ... While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of ...

Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. That seemingly mundane moment would shake the community and change the city forever. Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ...

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal marshals.

Lucille Bridges pushed to have Ruby attend the previously all-white William Frantz Elementary School so that Ruby would have better educational opportunities than she did Rachel DeSantis is a ...