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 ...

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 ...

I told my granddaughter that Bridges started school in 1960 ... of affirmative responses of both White students and students of color. While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black ...

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story ... the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school in Louisiana during the New Orleans ...

“Today, I’m going to be talking about why Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day should ... became the first Black student to attend an all-white school in the South. “We do have a Black History ...

Norman Rockwell painted The Problem We All Live With. It depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old Black girl, being escorted by U ...

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

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

Ruby Bridges, who made history at ... tradition into separate schools for black and white students. Her walk into the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, on November 14, 1960, was ...