The film’s namesake, Ruby Bridges, was 6 when she became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960. Flanked by four federal marshals ...

The 1998 film “Ruby Bridges” will continue to be part of the elementary school curriculum. San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images. A few days after the viewing, parent Emily Conklin filed a ...

The Disney movie “Ruby Bridges,” which tells the tale of a 6-year-old who integrated New Orleans schools in the 1960s, has been a staple of Pinellas County Black History Month lessons for ...

Ruby Bridges talked in the late ’90s about the importance of Disney making a movie about how, as a first-grader, she became a civil rights icon by wading through a White mob to integrate an ...

Ruby Bridges *A Florida school banned the 1998 Disney movie “Ruby Bridges” after one parent complained students should not see scenes of white people’s hatred toward a 6-year-old Black girl.

‘Ruby Bridges’ film offers lessons, not message of hate, creators say. A story from 1960 puts Pinellas County in the spotlight as Florida’s new law governing school materials takes hold. ...

Shameful: ‘Ruby Bridges’ Film Banned From School Because White Parents Feeling Some Kind of Way. The movie had been part of the Pinellas County Black History Month curriculum for years. By.

Earlier this month, the parent wouldn't allow her child to watch the 1998 Disney movie "Ruby Bridges," which tells the real-life story of a 6-year-old girl who was among the first Black students ...

The film's namesake, Ruby Bridges, was 6 when she became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.

The film’s namesake, Ruby Bridges, was 6 when she became the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.