Columnist Ed Pratt's granddaughter is learning about what Ruby Bridges went through just to go to school in New Orleans. This ...

making events like "Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day" so critical. Bridges and Henry are still alive. Bridges continues her work as a civil rights activist and works with The Ruby Bridges ...

According to Hilbert College, she and her mother Lucille Bridges were escorted by federal marshals to the school, with two walking in front of them and two behind. The image of this historical ...

At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges ... little girl inside me," Bridges said. "I got my determination from my mother and compassion from my father." Her first walk to the school was memorialized by ...

AUGUSTA, Ga (WJBF)-Saturday morning the cast of the Augusta Junior Players production of “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges” took a walk to put themselves in her shoes. On November 14 ...

The real-life Bridges ... end of her first year there. We see her mother and father struggle over the choice (and its consequences), Ruby’s battles with loneliness and rejection at school ...

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she ...

Ravenswood City School District students walk down Fordham Street in East Palo Alto to honor civil rights activist Ruby Bridges on Nov. 14. Courtesy Gabriel Anguiano. Ravenswood City School ...

Her journey of advocacy began at the mere age of 6, when she attended a previously white-only elementary school in Louisiana ... a book about Ruby Bridges before joining a walk to City First ...

If you have Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend off and are looking for ways to celebrate his legacy, you won't want to miss the chance to hear Ruby ... and her mother Lucille Bridges were escorted by ...