Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...

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

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 ...

Bridges is the subject of a book my granddaughter chose for Black History Month at her elementary school ... While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

RELATED VIDEO: #SeeHer Story: Ruby Bridges Speaking with PEOPLE about her new book This Is Your Time, out Tuesday, Ruby acknowledged how difficult it must have been for Lucille and Abon to explain ...

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

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age ... attended formerly all-white schools in New Orleans, but Bridges was the only one to enroll on her own. Her mother accompanied her into the school, but ...