At UChicago’s MLK event, civil rights icon recalls integrating New Orleans schools and pleads to protect today’s youth ...

Bridges is also the author of four books, some of which have been targeted by critics an inappropriate for schools. Last year ...

What is the Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day ... Bridges said history should be taught the way it happened and that books like hers shouldn't be banned in schools for telling the truth.

Since becoming a household name, Bridges’ life story has appeared in countless books, television shows and on film. Bridges has since established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and ...

SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend an all-White elementary school in New Orleans, credits her family and faith with overcoming the hate she experienced during those ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - On Saturday, people, young and old, gathered at the Lucy C. Laney Memorial Stadium to pay tribute ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered that school, the state of Louisiana had tried to stop her and other black students from enrolling in all-white schools.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - The Augusta Jr. Players is gearing up to perform “Ruby: The Story of Ruby Bridges”. During the ...

Still alive today at the age of 70, she has written books and formed a foundation ... Prime Stage Theatre’s “Look Forward: the Ruby Bridges Story” will run through Jan. 26 at the New Hazlett ...