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 "best ...

Author and civil rights activist Ruby Bridges will inspire a new generation by releasing her latest children’s book, Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts. Known for her pivotal role in desegregating schools in ...

Ruby Bridges was a 6-year-old first-grader when she walked past jeering crowds of white people to become one of the first Black students at racially segregated schools in New Orleans more than six ...

A new Vancouver preschool named for American civil rights activist Ruby Bridges recently opened in central Vancouver. “(The) area, even though it’s so densely populated, is considered an early ...

Ruby Bridges, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost and Leona Tate were the first Black children in New Orleans allowed into ...

More than 100 children walked over a mile to school Wednesday morning in honor of Ruby Bridges. Pleasant Valley Elementary School kids, aged 4 to 11, and their parents met up at O’Hair Park at 8 a.m.

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’ teacher, Barbara Henry, came from Boston specifically for the job (Bridges has previously said that some of the school’s white teachers had quit, not wanting to teach Black students). By the ...

Ruby Bridges says she told a little lie en route to her TODAY appearance earlier this year. “On the plane, everybody’s standing up, got their bag and this lady says, ‘Are you Ruby Bridges?’ And I ...