In 1999, she created the Ruby Bridges Foundation to empower young minds, encourage social change, and promote equality through education. She also makes public appearances, gives speeches ...

Each winter, eighth grade students at the Gordon School take a trip to Alabama and Georgia to visit historic sites associated ...

This Women's Herstory Month, the Buffalo Center for Health Equity (BCHE) highlights the trailblazing achievements of civil ...

When Quintard Taylor launched BlackPast in 2007, he didn’t realize attacks on history would make the site as necessary as it ...

It’s about pedagogy and civil rights,” he said. “The Department of Education has long stood as a bulwark against inequality, and now we risk going back to a time when students like Ruby Bridges needed ...

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

Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...

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 ...

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