Bridges attended classes alone for a full year, with only Henry there to teach her. "She filled my day with things to do," Bridges said on TODAY. "She made school fun.

Ruby Bridges is an iconic figure in the history of civil rights in America. Born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, Ruby became, at six years old, the first African American child to ...

RUBY BRIDGES: I had no idea that it was going to be a white school. It wasn't something that my parents explained to me. As a matter of fact, the only thing they said is, Ruby, you're going to go ...

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 ...

Bridges attended classes alone for a full year, with only Henry there to teach her. "She filled my day with things to do," Bridges said on TODAY. "She made school fun.

A school in Florida has stopped showing the movie Ruby Bridges. during its Black History Month classes after a parent complained.. The adult refused to allow their child to watch the 1998 Disney ...

Ruby Bridges (Saniya Lavelle) sits ready for class in her new school in Prime Stage Theatre’s production of ‘Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story.’ ...

Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges shares insights from her latest book, "Ruby Bridges: A Talk With My Teacher." She reflects on her experiences as a young girl integrating an all-white school ...

Ruby Bridges will appear in Topeka on ... had to spend her first day in the principal's office and spent her first year as the only member of a one-person class taught by Barbara Henry, a white ...

Ruby Bridges will appear in Topeka on Nov. 14, the 64th anniversary of the day she made Civil Rights history by desegregating a New Orleans school.

The morning of November 14, 1960, a little girl named Ruby Bridges became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Ruby was 6, and as she ...