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

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

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

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 ... Not knowing what it meant, Bridges said after her first day of school when she went home and skipped rope with her sister, the ...

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 ...

The event also featured a conversation with civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend an all-white elementary school in ... is holding an MLK Day of Service.

Ruby Bridges’ story is one of bravery ... escorted by federal marshals, to attend her first day at William Frantz Elementary School in 1960. Her courage helped open the doors for other African ...