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 ... Bridges said she was not allowed to go out for recess or eat her lunch in the school cafeteria, which led to her hiding her lunch 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 ...

“Today, I’m going to be talking about why Ruby Bridges Walk to School ... His classmate, Ariadne Garcia Montoya, said Bridges was “very brave to go to the school to get her education ...

It would be hard to go to school like that,” she said ... of both White students and students of color. While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of all ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana ... be irreparably damaged if they didn't go on and do what they all knew by that time ...

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

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 ... and those kids were assigned to go to school with Bridges. That’s how she ended up being alone.

Ruby Bridges announced the death of her mother ... "What would you say? 'You're about to go to a new school. There's going to be lots of people out there screaming and yelling at you ...

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 ...