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

and speaker Ruby Bridges made history at just 6 years old as the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary ...

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 ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... had been a segregated institution for its 129-year history until February 1963, when 11 black students ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed ... if you remember your history.” A couple of days before it was time to go, two kids dropped out, and those kids were assigned ...

It was sad that the parents would not have their kids with her ... While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of all races learn about Black contributions ...

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

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 ...

Republicans on the House Education Committee rejected a bill that would have permanently designated Nov. 14 Ruby ... Bridges was “very brave to go to the school to get her education” and that ...

Lucille Bridges, who helped change the course of American history when she accompanied daughter Ruby Bridges to her newly desegregated school each day in the early 1960s, has died. She was 86.