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

On Nov. 14, 1960, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges was surrounded by loved ones and her New Orleans community, unaware of the significance of what she was about to do. During the height of the Civil Rights ...

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 ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...