The Story of Ruby Bridges and... ABC NEWS: To much acclaim. BRIDGES: Yes. And a teacher purchased the book to share with her ...

The Story of Ruby Bridges and... ABC NEWS: To much acclaim. BRIDGES: Yes. And a teacher purchased the book to share with her class and found out that the administrator in that particular school ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made ... were kept away from her by the school’s principal. Bridges attended classes alone for a full year, with only Henry there to teach ...

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

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school ... integration also coincided with an exodus of middle-class white families to the suburbs, where developments ...

Ruby Bridges, who in November 1960 became the first Black student to integrate at her all-white New Orleans public elementary school when she was only six years old, joins TODAY to share her new ...

And she told me about the video on Bridges’ experience that was shown in her class. All this comes at ... While focused on Ruby Bridges, I hope that during Black History Month children of ...

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the ... the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only one there.

Many white families withdrew their children from classes, and crowds of protesters ... She is also the author of several books, including “Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher,” a children ...