Ruby Bridges: Early Life Ruby Bridges was born in Tylertown, Mississippi, on September 8, 1954. She is one of eight children born to parents Abon and Lucille Bridges.

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

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges ... rise in hate and ...

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

And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is set to join the ranks with her appearance at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in downtown Frederick. Born in Mississippi in 1954, Bridges and her ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public elementary school in 1960, if not for a first grade teacher who became her ...

(Forgive me.) The observation that caught my attention was my granddaughter Talia saying to her mom, “Did you know Pop (her name for me) is the same age as Ruby Bridges?” Two things here.

Bridges' latest book details her reunion with educator Barbara Henry. Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects ...