WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black ...
Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...
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Who Was Ruby Bridges?
Ruby Bridges was born in Tylertown ... In 2001, Bridges was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by former President Bill Clinton. She also won the NAACP Martin Luther King Award, the John ...
Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story ... the Presidential Citizens Medal, and honorary doctorate degrees from Connecticut College, College of New ...
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 Walk to School Day in Kansas. Screenshot courtesy of the Kansas Legislature ...
Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal ...