All 6-year-old Ruby Bridges wanted was a friend when she walked into William Frantz Elementary in 1960 as the first Black child to desegregate the New Orleans school, flanked by four federal marshals ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Pinellas County school committee voted unanimously Monday to continue the use of the movie “Ruby Bridges” in classrooms after a parent filed a formal objection. “Thrilled,” ...

KSHB 41 reporter Alyssa Jackson has covered Frank Rushton Elementary School's push for Ruby Bridges to come to Kansas and have a commemorative day in her honor. Share your story idea with Alyssa.

As Ruby Bridges spoke about making civil rights history simply by going to school, 15-year-old Janeska reflected on her own experience at a new high school this year. Bridges was the featured speaker ...

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 argued ...

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 ...

The morning of November 14, 1960, a little girl named Ruby Bridges got dressed and left for school. At just six years old, Ruby became the first Black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz ...

Ruby Bridges, who made history at age six when she walked into a grade school in Louisiana surrounded by federal marshals, is scheduled to speak Wednesday, March 19 at the Carpenter Center at Cal ...

Sixty years ago, a 6-year-old girl flanked by four tall, white federal marshals went to school, largely unaware of the significance of her steps. Her mother didn't explain before she climbed the ...

Recently New Orleans celebrated the 60th anniversary of desegregation in its public schools. The occasion was marked throughout the city, nowhere more poignantly than at Akili Academy, the school that ...

I got a text from my daughter-in-law the other day that had me both laughing and bursting with pride about a keen observation from my 7-year-old granddaughter. No, it had nothing to do with the ...