C ivil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made it through her first year of integrating her all-white public ...

Ruby Bridges, who desegregated New Orleans schools as a 6-year-old in 1960, ... Bridges was isolated for that entire year: Federal marshals continued to accompany her to first grade, ...

A film about a Black first grader who integrated an all-White elementary school in the South is under review in a Florida school district after a parent objected to the movie’s use of slurs and ...

But she courageously walked past angry crowds to enter her first grade, escorted by federal marshals. In her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher," she shares a personal story about ...

WEST LONG BRANCH - Nearly 70 years following the desegregation of the public school system, Ruby Bridges, the first Black student to integrate an all-white elementary school alone in New Orleans ...

Bridges recalled the differences between getting ready for her first day of kindergarten at a segregated school for Black children and getting ready for her first day of first grade.

New Bridge Elementary students walk around Liberty Park in Ogden on Monday, Nov. 14, 2022, to honor Ruby Bridges, the first African-American student to integrate a grade school in the South.

Ruby Bridges National Walk to School Day was Thursday, Nov. 14. Tacoma’s Birney elementary honored the pioneer via a walking school bus.

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 ...