Screaming protestors surrounded the building as federal marshals escorted a brave six-year-old girl on her way to making history. In first grade. It was November of 1960 when Ruby Bridges became the ...

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 ...

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

Nothing is as compelling to a child as another child’s story, so my students learn about young people who helped create change.

Civil rights activist and philanthropist Ruby Bridges discussed her life story — including integrating an elementary school — and the importance of remembering history in front of Long Beach ...

Thousands of students across California walked to school Tuesday to commemorate civil rights hero Ruby Bridges. Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she integrated William Frantz Elementary School in ...

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 ...

In 1960, a six-year-old African-American girl named Ruby Bridges helped to integrate the ... Encouraged by her teacher, a white woman from the North named Barbara Henry, and her mother Lucille ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when ... allow their children to attend the school that day, and all but one teacher refused to show up for work. Eventually, the students returned ...