plus a Ruby Bridges coloring page at the side of the biography research area. Basic Information Early Life Major Contributions Impact on Society Ruby Bridges was born in 1954, the same year the U ...

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

Bridges spoke at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel about her experience as the first Black student to attend her elementary school.

Ruby Bridges was just six years old when she became the first Black student to integrate an all-white New Orleans’ public school alone in 1960. Flanked by U.S. marshals, the world watched as she ...

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

When Ruby Bridges was 6-years-old, the civil rights movement came hammering at her door… making her the first African ...

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 ...

Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Prime Stage Theatre is mounting a production of “Look Forward: The Ruby Bridges Story,” written by Natalia Temesgen.

The event also featured a conversation with civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana in 1960 at just six years old.

Ruby Bridges will speak during the community celebration at 3 p.m. Jan. 19 at Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium. Bridges was the first Black student to integrate an all-White elementary school in ...