People who work in government offices get all kinds of flak, often unfairly. Columnist Ed Pratt tells the story of one civil ...

Board of Education and the 64th anniversary of that first walk to school ... What is the Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day? During the conversation with Bridges, Gov. Laura Kelly signed a ...

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

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SPARTANBURG — Ruby Bridges, the first Black child to attend ... Not knowing what it meant, Bridges said after her first day of school when she went home and skipped rope with her sister, the ...

Path to Integration Before a first-grader named Ruby Bridges entered ... On that day three black girls began first grade at the McDonough school and Bridges at William Frantz.

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

On Nov. 14, 1960, Bridges became the first and only Black student to attend William ... Each year on Nov. 14, the foundation leads Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day, an annual day of dialog to inspire ...

Her first day at the school was on Nov. 14 ... With," now displayed outside the Oval Office in the White House. Ruby Bridges was 6 when she walked into a segregated school. Now she teaches ...

Starting this weekend that leads into Martin Luther King Jr. Day ... the story of Bridges who, at 6 years old, was the first Black student to attend William Frantz Elementary School in New ...