Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges says she may not have made ... "She filled my day with things to do," Bridges said on TODAY. "She made school fun. I enjoyed learning. Even though the crowd was ...

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 ...

The observation that caught my attention was my granddaughter Talia saying to her mom, “Did you know Pop (her name for me) is the same age as Ruby Bridges?” Two things here. She was spot on ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she ... an angry mob of white Southerners who shouted, catcalled and threw things. She walked in accompanied by four federal law enforcement officers.